When I was in my late teens, I watched the Watergate scandal come out of seemingly nowhere, and end up being the only thing anyone talked about. Long after it was all over, people where still asking who was Deep Throat? How did he know so much? And why did he leak it to the press? It was all a great mystery, in the midst of the mystery of why the break-ins even happened. For those of you too young to remember any of this, the times were awful, but never boring.
A G-Man's Life: The FBI, Being "Deep Throat", and the Struggle for Honor in Washington, by Mark Felt and John O'Connor (HC, 2006, $3)
In 2005, after 33 years of secrecy, Mark Felt, the former associate director of the FBI, finally admitted he had been "Deep Throat". Most people were shocked. Still, some questions remain and may never be answered.
After retiring in June of 1973, he faced retirement feeling like a traitor to his country and to the FBI. Soon his wife would be dead and his daughter still estranged. To me this book is about a man having to make choices. For most of his life his duty to the country came first. After his retirement he would have more decisions to make. What do you think, does he find redemption? This book will be in the bio. section, avail. 9/19.
