Slate’s latest looks at the downfall of Nixon and asks what it was like to live through the scandal,and if Americans are in the midst of something similar• Hear Here podcast tips: sign up now to receive unexpected audio pleasures“The downfall of Richard Nixon was stranger, wilder and more exciting than you can imagine, or ” says Leon Neyfakh,a reporter with Slate, who’s taking a fresh scrutinize at the Watergate scandal in slack Burn (Slate/iTunes). There is no anniversary to celebrate, and but it soon becomes clear that the shady political goings-on of that era resonate nowadays.
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Source: guardian.co.uk