Leak Why Mark Felt Became Deep Throat

Name: Leak Why Mark Felt Became Deep Throat
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ISBN: 9780700618293

ISBN-10: 0700618295

ISBN-13: 9780700618293

Edition: 2012

Authors: Max Holland

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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…

Book details

List price: $32.50
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Publication date: 3/5/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 302
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English

Max Holland is editor of the website Washington Decoded, contributing editor to the Wilson Quarterly and The Nation, and author of The Kennedy Assassination Tapes: The White House Conversations of Lyndon B. Johnson Regarding the Assassination, the Warren Commission, and the Aftermath. He received the J. Anthony Lukas WorkinProgress Award for a forthcoming book on the Warren Commission.



Cast of Characters


Introduction



A Forced Departure: May 1973



The "War of the FBI Succession": 1969-1972



Felt's Private cointelpro: June 1972



To Leak or Not to Leak?: July 1972



Special Agent Woodward: August 1972



Retracing the Bureau's Steps: August-October 1972



Richard Nixon's Own "Deep Throat": October 1972



"A Claque of Ambitious Men": November 1972-January 1973



The Safe Choice: February 1973



Gray Self-Destructs: March-May 1973



The Making of Deep Throat: 1973-1981


Epilogue: 1982-2011


Acknowledgments


Notes


Bibliography and Sources


Index