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Leak - Why Mark Felt Became Deep Throat (Paperback)
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Leak - Why Mark Felt Became Deep Throat (Paperback)
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Through the shadowy persona of ""Deep Throat,"" FBI official Mark
Felt became as famous as the Watergate scandal his ""leaks"" helped
uncover. Best known through Hal Holbrook's portrayal in the film
version of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein's All the President's
Men, Felt was regarded for decades as a conscientious but highly
secretive whistleblower who shunned the limelight. Yet even after
he finally revealed his identity in 2005, questions about his true
motivations persisted. Max Holland has found the missing piece of
that Deep Throat puzzle-one that's been hidden in plain sight all
along. He reveals for the first time in detail what truly motivated
the FBI's number-two executive to become the most fabled secret
source in American history. In the process, he directly challenges
Felt's own explanations while also demolishing the legend fostered
by Woodward and Bernstein's bestselling account. Holland critiques
all the theories of Felt's motivation that have circulated over the
years, including notions that Felt had been genuinely upset by
White House law-breaking or had tried to defend and insulate the
FBI from the machinations of President Nixon and his Watergate
henchmen. And, while acknowledging that Woodward finally disowned
the ""principled whistleblower"" image of Felt in The Secret Man,
Holland shows why that famed journalist's latest explanation still
falls short of the truth. Holland showcases the many twists and
turns to Felt's story that are not widely known, revealing not a
selfless official acting out of altruistic patriotism, but rather a
career bureaucrat with his own very private agenda. Drawing on new
interviews and oral histories, old and just-released FBI Watergate
files, papers of the Watergate Special Prosecution Force,
presidential tape recordings, and Woodward and Bernstein's
Watergate-related papers, he sheds important new light on both
Felt's motivations and the complex and often problematic
relationship between the press and government officials. Fast-paced
and scrupulously fact-checked, Leak resolves the mystery residing
at the heart of Mark Felt's actions. By doing so, it radically
revises our understanding of America's most famous presidential
scandal.
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