Watergate in American memory : how we remember, forget, and reconstruct the past
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Watergate in American memory : how we remember, forget, and reconstruct the past
BasicBooks, c1992
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-267) and index
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Description
Using interviews, press accounts of recent political controversies and poll data to explore America's collective memory of Watergate and what this reveals about our perception of the past, this book examines how the spectre of Watergate continues to haunt American politics.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Versions of Watergate: thinking with Watergate - constitutional crisis or scandal?
- revising Watergate - routine or aberration?
- collective memory and Watergate. Part 2 Watergate in American memory: memory mobilized - making careers out of Watergate
- memory contested - reform and the lessons of the past
- memory mythologized - Watergate and the media
- memory contained - conventionalizing Watergate
- memory engrained - post-Watergate political expectations
- memory ignited - the metaphor of Watergate in Iran-Contra
- memory besieged - Richard Nixon's campaign for reputation. Part 3 Remembering, forgetting, and reconstructing the past: the resistance of the past.
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