Bush–and the backroom bargain that forced Agnew’s resignation but also spared him years in federal prison. In this blockbuster account, Rachel Maddow and Michael Yarvitz detail the investigation that exposed Agnew’s crimes, the attempts at a cover-up–which involved future president George H. The self-described “counterpuncher” vice president did everything he could to bury their investigation: dismissing it as a “witch hunt,” riling up his partisan base, making the press the enemy, and, with a crumbling circle of loyalists, scheming to obstruct justice in order to survive. Long on firebrand rhetoric and short on political experience, Agnew had carried out a bribery and extortion ring in office for years, when–at the height of Watergate–three young federal prosecutors discovered his crimes and launched a mission to take him down before it was too late, before Nixon’s impending downfall elevated Agnew to the presidency. Agnew, the former governor of Maryland, was Richard Nixon’s second-in-command. Is it possible for a sitting vice president to direct a vast criminal enterprise within the halls of the White House? To have one of the most brazen corruption scandals in American history play out while nobody’s paying attention? And for that scandal to be all but forgotten decades later?
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Rachel Maddow will be in conversation with Jeff Martin, co-founder of Magic City Books and President of the Tulsa Literary Coalition and PEN-Tulsa.Įach ticket includes one (1) copy of Bag Man and one (1) link to the virtual event on Sunday, December 13 at 7:00 pm CT. Magic City Books is proud to present an exclusive event featuring Rachel Maddow in celebration of her new book written with co-author Michael Yarvitz, Bag Man: The Wild Crimes, Audacious Cover-Up, and Spectacular Downfall of a Brazen Crook in the White House, a knockdown, drag-out, untold story of the other scandal that rocked Nixon’s White House, and reset the rules for crooked presidents to come–with new reporting that expands on Rachel Maddow’s Peabody Award-nominated podcast.
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