1st Wednesdays at the Ilsley

Garret Graff
The New History of Watergate

Fifty years after five well-dressed burglars were caught inside the Watergate offices of the Democratic National Committee, the resulting scandal that brought down Richard Nixon’s presidency continues to reverberate in modern American politics.  Bestselling author and journalist Garrett M. Graff, whose new book Watergate: A New History serves and the definitive history of the scandal that came to define all others, discusses its modern legacy, how it shaped modern Washington, and how the actual events of 1971-1974 are actually so much stranger, wilder, and weirder than our popular memory.