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REVIEW BY JAMES ROSEN
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 The June, 2008 issue of The
American Spectator contains a major review of IN NIXON'S WEB by
James
Rosen, Fox News Washington correspondent and author of the
best-selling
THE STRONG MAN: John Mitchell and the Secrets of Watergate.
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HIGHLIGHTS:
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"In Nixon's Web is one of the most careful and exhaustive
exercises in media criticism—in the painstaking correction of false,
if not outright libelous, news reporting—to emerge from the
saturation coverage Watergate era, and it trains especial focus on
that era's most celebrated reporters, Bob Woodward and Carl
Bernstein of the Washington Post. Also pointedly corrected here,
using a wealth of previously unpublished documents, transcripts, and
tapes, is the official account of the great scandal as it was
proffered in sworn testimony by senior Nixon administration
officials and in the final reports of the major investigative
bodies. Gray's meticulous attention to facts and details—above all,
his devotion to the truth—makes In Nixon's Web an indispensable
contribution to the literature of Watergate, a righting, and
supplementing, of the extant record that no scholar or student of
the era can afford to ignore."
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"In their bestselling book All the President's Men, and in the
hugely successful film based on it, Woodward used the code name
"Deep Throat" to identify Felt. But through a careful examination of
Woodward and Bernstein's archival papers, which the University of
Texas paid $5 million to acquire—the Gray collection should fetch
three times that—Ed Gray, in a brilliantly researched coda,
demolishes forever the notion that Deep Throat was Mark Felt alone.
Others have already made inroads on this subject, but the use of
Woodward's own typed notes makes the judgment final. Indeed, Ed Gray
even identified one of the other sources Woodward has been
protecting with the Deep Throat umbrella for all these years—and got
that individual to admit as much, on the record. Only Woodward, who
cooperated with the Gray project until the questions became
uncomfortable, is left clinging to the fictions of All the
President's Men."
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"Rarely does a man as vilified as Gray was—the only one of the 10
Nixon aides depicted on the cover of All the President’s Men who
never pleaded guilty to, or was convicted of, a crime—live long
enough, and keep such careful records, to rebut his slanderers with
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Read the whole review here.
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