Myerson, Michael. Watergate: Crime in the Suites. New York: International Publishers, 1973. 182 pages.

In 1973, the James Restons and Eric Severeids never tired of telling us that Watergate proved the System works. They told us with a straight face that our free press kicks in when power becomes unbalanced, and everyone can go back to sleep. No one in the media thought to view Watergate as the tip of the Washington iceberg rather than just "a bizarre incident," to use Nixon's words. If they had, we might have been better equipped to deal with the 1980s -- the decade that proved once and for all that our media, by their sins of omission, are a major part of the problem.

This little book was the exception, which is why you didn't find it in most bookstores (International Publishers is a tiny Trotskyite publishing house). Basically it's a compilation of facts about Watergate from major newspapers, a sort of pre-computer version of NameBase. For author Michael Myerson, Watergate was an opportunity to expose business as usual. His book presents the facts in macro fashion; too many other Watergate books get lost in self-serving detail as they try to promote a particular insider scenario. Of particular interest to NameBase is the last half of this book, which features an alphabetical list of the top 110 Watergate players, each with from one paragraph to several pages of biographical information.
ISBN 0-7178-0410-0

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