Volume 21, Number 19 · November 28, 1974
Propaganda of the Victors
By Alexander Cockburn
The Senate Watergate Report
with an introduction by Daniel Schorr
Dell, Vol. II, 514 pp., $2.25 (paper)
The Great Cover-Up: Nixon and the Scandal of Watergate
by Barry Sussman
New American Library, 323 pp., $1.95 (paper)
The Palace Guard
by Dan Rather, by Gary Paul Gates
Harper & Row, 326 pp., $8.95
The Fall of a President
by the staff of the Washington Post
Delacorte, 232 pp., $1.75 (paper)
Undercover: Memoirs of an American Secret Agent
by E. Howard Hunt
Berkley/Putnam's, 338 pp., $8.95
No Final Victories
by Lawrence O'Brien
Doubleday, 394 pp., $12.50
Big Brother and the Holding Company: The World Behind Watergate
edited by Steve Weissman, with introduction by Noam Chomsky
Ramparts Press, 350 pp., $3.45 (paper)
Even at the present modest distance from Watergate one is left with the somewhat depressing conclusion that the lifeblood of scandals, political as much as sexual, is detail. Depressing, because detail after all is what people forget first. Too soon we are left with 'general lessons' and the trite impedimenta of editorial writers and other chartered accountants of our social and moral inventory.
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