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Mark Felt

The Man Who Brought Down the White House

by Mark Felt
John O'Connor
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In 1974, Mark Felt was given the code name "Deep Throat" and shared intelligence on the Watergate break-in with a young reporter from the Washington Post named Bob Woodward. Thus began the greatest political scandal in the twentieth century, which would besmirch an entire administration and bring down a presidency.
A patriotic man, Felt only revealed his role in our national history as he neared the end of his
life. Based on his personal recollections, Mark Felt chronicles his FBI career, from the end of the
great American crime wave and World War II to the culture wars of the 1960s and his penetration
of the Weather Underground; provides rich historical and personal context for his role in the
Watergate scandal; and depicts how he came to feel that the FBI needed a "Lone Ranger" to
protect it from White House corruption.

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  • Release date

    April 30, 2006

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781400122295
      • File size: 356166 KB
      • Duration: 12:22:00

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Felt's role as "Deep Throat," the insider who led reporters to break the Watergate scandal, is the excuse for this book, but the longest and best part is his memoir of life as a straight-arrow FBI careerist who rose nearly to the top, a Hoover loyalist so devoted to the Bureau that he helped undo a president to preserve its independence and integrity. Michael Prichard's voice is not the prettiest, but he's skilled and experienced, and his no-nonsense but expressive reading serves this tough, principled, and conservative author well. Sections about the revelation of Felt's secret and his old age are tacked on but do add an interesting dimension. W.M. (c) AudioFile 2006, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      March 20, 2006
      This autobiography, assembled from Felt's 1979 memoir, The FBI Pyramid from the Inside
      , other unpublished writings and reminiscences by family and friends, has little to say about his role as Deep Throat. Felt barely alludes to his connection to reporter Bob Woodward (an addendum by O'Connor, Felt's lawyer, fleshes out the relationship), focusing instead on the performance of the FBI, where he was second-in-command during the Watergate probe. His leaks, he hints, were a strategy to keep the investigation from being derailed by White House stonewalling and interference from FBI director and Nixon loyalist L. Patrick Gray. Felt also recounts intriguing if undramatic anecdotes from his early FBI career, paints a hagiographic portrait of J. Edgar Hoover and defends his authorization of warrantless break-ins in the investigation of the Weather Underground. Throughout, his ostensible motive is always to safeguard the nation while preserving the FBI's integrity and professionalism (although one glimpses a subtle, ambitious careerist behind the square-jawed crime fighter). As history attests, Felt's is a valuable insider's perspective, but due to an aging memory, it's not always complete. (Apr.)

      Correction: Our review of Miss American Pie
      (Reviews, Mar. 6) misstated author Margaret Sartor's hometown. She grew up in Montgomery, La.

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