52 Weeks Book Challenge

This week the book I read was "In Search of Deep Throat" by Leonard Garment. Mr. Garment took the place of Counsel to the President when John Dean resigned from the Nixon Administration. Like all associated with "Watergate", Mr. Garment wondered who the mysterious "Deep Throat" could be. Having worked in the Nixon Administration from the beginning, he had first hand knowledge of all the players in this national drama as it played out. I was very young during the "Watergate" era and did not fully understand the details in this period of American history. The book gives you a good re-cap from the early days of Nixon's law career, where Garment worked at a law firm Nixon was a partner in, to the last days before the President resigned. In the second half of the book he presents his "theory" as to who "Deep Throat" by going through all the possible players involved. He comes to a conclusion as to who he believes "Deep Throat" really is. This book was written in 2000, before the real "Deep Throat" came out. I won't spoil it for you, if you want to read the book, and tell you whether Garment was right or not. I knew that in 2005 "Deep Throat" surfaced but couldn't remember who they said it was so I read the book before using google to find out! It was a very interesting book from a first hand account of the events.