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The Watergate Girl: My Fight for Truth and Justice Against a Criminal President
Maybe someday
48
/100
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Readers
60/100Critics
35/100Scholars
Author:
Jill Wine-Banks
Publisher:
Henry Holt and Co.
Date:
February 25, 2020
Obstruction of justice, the specter of impeachment, sexism at work: Jill Wine-Banks takes us inside her trial by fire as a Watergate prosecutor.
What The Reviewers Say
... invaluable in understanding what happened then and, sadly, raises questions of whether we, as a nation, learned anything at all from that experience.
... contributes a new perspective and details to an already massive literature, but no earth-shattering revelations.
In this sprightly and engrossing memoir of her time in those fraught, gender-challenged trenches, Wine-Banks reveals tantalizing behind-the-scenes details that bring that pivotal time in the nation’s history back to life and relevancy.
Wine-Banks has chosen to employ a highly passionate and personal voice in crafting the narrative. The more you read, the more uncannily effective this choice becomes. She has been a trailblazer in many legal skirmishes since Watergate, but her decision to write this book in the excited, impressionistic tones of her 1971 self serves to make the book very immediate reading.
