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The 38th President

A Watergate Novel

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The 38th President

By: Paul Wonnacott
Narrated by: Philip Benoit
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Watergate could have turned out quite differently. In this novel, it does. The story is told by a fictitious White House official who becomes entangled in a web of bribery, blackmail, arson, and espionage. He conspicuously fails to follow his own good advice: Don’t do anything you wouldn’t want to see on the front page of the Washington Post.

After the fact, history may seem preordained, but it is not. At the beginning of Nixon’s second term in 1973, who would have thought that, if Nixon were driven from office, Gerry Ford would become president?

In this novel, the wheel of fortune takes another turn. The 38th president is not Gerry Ford.

©2008 Paul Wonnacott (P)2021 Paul Wonnacott
Historical Fiction Political Science Fiction Spies & Politics Thriller & Suspense Espionage Fiction

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Done to death by slanderous tongues ..we

As the author lies to open each chapter with an erudite quotation, my review does the same.
I was in my 20's when Watergate came to light. I had more important things going on in my life then but have subsequently listened to All the Presidents Men and The Final Days written by Woodward and Bernstein who broke the scandal in the Washington Post. If you want the facts then get both books rather than this hotchpotch.
I have 2 observations on books like this:
If you are going to write a counterfactual. set it a long time ago.
Distinguished academics make terrible writers of fiction. C.P. Snow is possibly one exception. In true academic style the author even cites references in his appendix .
Narration is monotone and lacking any attempt to add colour to the text.

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