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Bag man : the wild crimes, audacious cover-up, & spectacular downfall of a brazen crook in the White House
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First edition.
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x, 291 pages : ill. ; 22 cm.
Summary:
"The knockdown, drag-out, untold story of the other scandal that rocked Nixon's White House, and reset the rules for crooked presidents to come-with new reporting that expands on Rachel Maddow's Peabody Award-nominated podcast. Is it possible for a sitting vice president to direct a vast criminal enterprise within the halls of the White House? To have one of the most brazen corruption scandals in American history play out while nobody's paying attention? And for that scandal to be all but forgotten decades later? The year was 1973, and Spiro T. Agnew, the former governor of Maryland, was Richard Nixon's second-in-command. Long on firebrand rhetoric and short on political experience, Agnew had carried out a bribery and extortion ring in office for years, when-at the height of Watergate-three young federal prosecutors discovered his crimes and launched a mission to take him down before it was too late, before Nixon's impending downfall elevated Agnew to the presidency. The self-described "counterpuncher" vice president did everything he could to bury their investigation: dismissing it as a "witch hunt," riling up his partisan base, making the press the enemy, and, with a crumbling circle of loyalists, scheming to obstruct justice in order to survive. In this blockbuster account, Rachel Maddow and Michael Yarvitz detail the investigation that exposed Agnew's crimes, the attempts at a cover-up-which involved future president George H. W. Bush-and the backroom bargain that forced Agnew's resignation but also spared him years in federal prison. Based on the award-winning hit podcast, Bag Man expands and deepens the story of Spiro Agnew's scandal and its lasting influence on our politics, our media, and our understanding of what it takes to confront a criminal in the White House."--
Contents:
Prologue: What's a Spiro Agnew? -- Divider-in-Chief -- Follow the Money -- An Unsettling Secret -- Crawling In -- "Damned Lies" -- "Give Them Hell" -- "That's When the Shit Hit the Fan" -- Turn It Off -- "Bleed Him to Death" -- "Bite The Bullet" -- "A Stunning Development" -- Disappearing Act -- "Our System Works.".
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Publication Info:
New York : Crown, 2020.
Subject:
Political corruption -- Maryland.
Vice-presidents -- United States -- Biography.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1969-1974
Agnew, Spiro T., 1918-1996
Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994 -- Friends and associates.
Agnew, Ted, 1918-1996
Ni-kʻo-sung, 1913-1994
Nikesong, 1913-1994
Nikson, Ričard Milhaus, 1913-1994
Ni-kʻo-hsün, 1913-1994
Nikexun, 1913-1994
Nikesen, 1913-1994
Ni-kʻo-sen, 1913-1994
Niksūn, Rītshārd, 1913-1994
Nixon, Richard Milhous, 1913-1994
Nixon, Richard, 1913-1994
Boss rule
Corruption (in politics)
Graft in politics
Machine politics
Malversation
Political scandals
Politics, Practical -- Corrupt practices
SAILS ISBN:
9780593136683