Watergate

Thomas Mallon might just as well have called this novel "The Women of Watergate." Into the foreground come Pat Nixon, Rose Woods, Alice Longworth, Dorothy Hunt, and others who have since assumed minor roles in the public's memory, including on the male side Mississippian "bagman" Fred LaRue. The line between fact and fiction quickly becomes irrelevant as Mallon touches up characters with color and supplies their every utterance with the quality of a quip.