About the Author:
Elizabeth Drew is a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books and the former Washington correspondent of The New Yorker and The Atlantic. She is the author of fourteen books, including The Corruption of American Politics, also available from The Overlook Press.
Review:
“Forty years after the greatest scandal of the American presidency, Elizabeth Drew’s account in Washington Journal remains fresh and riveting, instructive and evocative. Her afterword on Nixon’s post-Watergate life is equally compelling.”
- Tom Brokaw
“It does something no other Watergate book does: tells the story not as a tidy tale with a clear beginning and inevitable end, but as an experience thick with confusion, rumors, alarm, and half-truths . . . Helpful for trying to understand what it is like to live through a period of great confusion and potentially great import.”
- Ezra Klein
“An amazing book that more than stands the test of time.”
- Jon Meacham, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and #1 New York Times bestselling author of Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
“To understand how the melodrama played out in real time in the capital, there may be no better guide than Washington Journal.”
- Frank Rich, New York Magazine
“Superb . . . [Drew] has succeeded admirably in coolly, clinically, meticulously recording the way it was. Her work is bound to be indispensable.”
- The Washington Post
“A journal so meticulous, so coolly absorbing as to render the year almost reasonable.”
- Joan Didion
“[Drew’s depiction of DC in 1973] bears an uncanny resemblance to the city we’ve come to know since President Donald Trump took office.”
- The Washingtonian
“Of all the books on Watergate, this is the one that will last.”
- John W. Gardner
“Elizabeth Drew made me feel again the strong emotions of those extraordinary months in 1974 when Richard Nixon was unmasked―the doubt, the tension, the relief. It was a time in our lives when the Constitution came alive, and she makes us understand how it happened. It is wonderful to be reminded.”
- Anthony Lewis
“A sober, thorough, and sensitive report.”
- The New York Times Books Review
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