Watergate In American Memory How We Remember, Forget, And Reconstruct The Past

by Schudson, Michael

• ISBN13: 9780465090839
• ISBN10: 0465090834
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1993-11-17
• Publisher: Basic Books

Summary

A look at what Americans remember (and what they have forgotten) about one of the most traumatic domestic political event in the America's post-war history.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Preface to the Paperback Edition	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
Versions of Watergate	p. 7
Thinking with Watergate: Constitutional Crisis or Scandal?	p. 9
Revising Watergate: Routine or Aberration?	p. 34
Collective Memory and Watergate	p. 51
Watergate in American Memory	p. 67
Memory Mobilized: Making Careers Out of Watergate	p. 69
Memory Contested: Reform and the Lessons of the Past	p. 88
Memory Mythologized: Watergate and the Media	p. 103
Memory Contained: Conventionalizing Watergate	p. 127
Memory Engrained: Post-Watergate Political Expectations	p. 148
Memory Ignited: The Metaphor of Watergate in Iran-Contra	p. 165
Memory Besieged: Richard Nixon's Campaign for Reputation	p. 185
Remembering, Forgetting, and Reconstructing the Past	p. 203
The Resistance of the Past	p. 205
Notes	p. 223
Index	p. 269
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