Weissman,S. Big Brother and the Holding Company. 1974
Weissman, Steve, ed. Big Brother and the Holding Company: The World Behind
Watergate. Palo Alto CA: Ramparts Press, 1974. 350 pages.
Most of these essays reflecting on the implications of Watergate are
reprinted from Ramparts magazine and NACLA's Latin America and Empire
Report. What's most striking is that somewhere between the 1970s and 1980s,
the U.S. Left lost much of its capacity for this sort of informed analysis.
Although several books on Iran-contra were factually comprehensive, they
failed to connect the dots into a larger understanding of American elites
and their political culture, and offered little beyond a compilation of
what was available in the newspapers.
Steve Weissman contributes essays on Tom Huston's plan and criticizes
Kirkpatrick Sale's and Carl Oglesby's "Yankee/Cowboy" theories. Richard
Popkin writes about the Secret Army Organization in San Diego, while Lowell
Bergman and Maxwell Robach analyze C. Arnholt Smith and the "San Diego
connection." Donald Freed looks at Operation Gemstone, Barbara Morris Freed
reviews Flight 533 (in which Watergate bagperson Dorothy Hunt, E. Howard
Hunt's wife, was killed), and Fred Cook describes the government's set-up
and prosecution of Vietnam Veterans Against the War. A theoretical analysis
of Watergate is offered by Harry Magdoff and Paul Sweezy. Stu Bishop and
Bert Knorr follow the money trail, Jon Frappier follows the law firms, and
Jeff Gerth looks at Nixon, organized crime, and the Miami connection.
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