A G-man's Life

by Felt, Mark

• ISBN13: 9781586484439
• ISBN10: 1586484435
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-06-25
• Publisher: Public Affairs

Summary

Mark Felt's role in history was secured when he decided to share his views on the Watergate break-in with a young reporter named Bob Woodward at the Washington Post. He made sure that the greatest political scandal in the twentieth century, which would taint an entire administration and bring down a presidency, was revealed in an unchallengeable way. This absorbing account of Felt's FBI career, from the end of the great American crime wave through World War II, the culture wars of the 1960s, and his conviction for his role in penetrating the Weather Underground, provides a rich historical and personal context to the "Deep Throat" chapter of his life. It also provides Felt's personal recollections of the Watergate scandal, written by him in 1982 and kept secret, in which he explains how he came to feel that the FBI needed a "Lone Ranger" to protect it from White House corruption. Much more than a Watergate procedural, A G-Man's Life is about life as a spy, the culture of the FBI, and the internal political struggles of mid-twentieth-century America. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Mark Felt lives in San Diego, CA. John O'Connor is a director in Howard Rice's Litigation Department. His practice focuses on product liability, intellectual property, and business tort litigation. He earned his law degree at the University of Michigan, and his A.B. at Notre Dame University. He lives in San Francisco.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. IX
Hoover's Acolyte	p. 1
The G-Man Culture	p. 8
Spy v. Counterspy	p. 16
On the FBI Roller Coaster	p. 24
Kansas City and the Mob	p. 44
Friction with the Kennedys	p. 60
Hoover's Enforcer	p. 69
The 1960s: Attack of the Radicals	p. 84
To Wiretap or Not to Wiretap	p. 93
Watching Martin Luther King, Jr.	p. 106
Purging an FBI Renegade	p. 115
White House Hardball	p. 126
A Prelude to Watergate	p. 136
"Hoover Is Dead"	p. 145
The Director's Legacy	p. 160
Nixon's FBI Man	p. 172
Three-Day Gray	p. 185
Watergate	p. 193
Twisting Slowly in the Wind	p. 227
Three-Hour Felt	p. 239
"You Are Lying"	p. 254
The Black Bag Jobs	p. 261
"Guilty"	p. 269
Epilogue	p. 281
Acknowledgments	p. 303
Index	p. 305
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