Saving Justice
Subtitle: Watergate, the Saturday Night Massacre, and Other Adventures of a Solicitor General
Publisher: Encounter Books
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 157
ISBN-13: 9781594035180; 9781594036811
Subjects: Watergate Affair, 1972-1974; HISTORY
Description: In June 1973, Judge Robert Bork was plucked from a quiet life of academia at Yale University and planted in the tumultuous soil of constitutional crisis by a Nixon administration barreling toward collapse. From the ousting of Vice President Spiro Agnew to the discharge of the Watergate special prosecutor, an event known as the Saturday Night Massacre, Saving Justice offers a firsthand, insider account of the whirlwind of events that engulfed the administration during the last half of 1973 and the first few months of 1974. This important volume provides a revelatory look into the in.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: FOReWORD; acknOWLeDgMentS; PROLOgue; 1getting the Job; 2nixon's Defenseattorney Offer; 3William O. Douglas's War; 4L'affaire agnew; 5the Saturday night Massacre; 6after the Massacre; 7Restoring Justice; ePiLOgue; nOteS; inDex.