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Ever since the Watergate scandal broke, people have speculated on the identity of Deep Throat, Woodward and Bernstein's secretive source. Nixon administration insider Leonard Garment wentIn Search of Deep Throatto solve the mystery. On page 2 of his book, Garment reveals his theory--and it's not who you might think.
Garment explains how he came to arrive at his conclusion, admitting that there's no "smoking gun"--and that his subject denies the charge vehemently (as do Woodward and Bernstein). He debunks other theories, and also somewhat laughingly describes the wrong turns he made during his investigation. For a time he was mistakenly convinced that Deep Throat was David Gergen, in part because of Gergen's height; inAll the President's Men, Woodward describes how Deep Throat had arranged to leave a note on a ledge in the parking garage where the two men met. When Woodward arrived, he was too short to reach it. Gergen was 7 inches taller than Woodward and "could have comfortably placed the note on the ledge without giving a thought to his friend's height disadvantage. At the time, I thought this fact to be of momentous significance."
Unveiling aside, Garment provides an insider's look into the Nixon administration and the Watergate scandal. Garment may well be wrong in his identification of Deep Throat, but his assessment of the state of post-Watergate politics rings painfully true. Though today's federal government appears "cleaner," owing in part to the rise of investigative reportingà la Woodward and Bernstein, Garment feels that "the ironic aftermath of the changes that Watergate and Deep Throat set in train is that politics and government are in substance distinctly meaner and dirtier than they were when Deep Throat decried the 'switchblade mentality' in the White House." As Garment points out, somehow "the idea of politics as inherently corrupt has led to its becoming more so." And that's what's hard to swallow.--Sunny Delaney
He didn't get it. Don't buy this book. It wasn't John Sears.
We know now that it was W. Mark Felt, the No. 2 man at the FBI who was the source.
This book should give pause to curious readers Obviously, this book is wrong. Mark Felt was identified as Deep Throat. However, I think there is a larger example to conisder here. The DT question was one of the biggest mysteries of our time. Many books were written on the subject, some with much investigation. From what I see, they were ALL wrong. Keep this in mind when you read other books that purport to hold an answer to a big modern mystery. This is commonsense, but it is easy to get wrapped up in a person's theory when they create a book and hype it. Think of how many other books are just as worthless as this one.A footnote to history Well, we finally know the identity of Deep Throat as W. Mark Felt came out of the closet yesterday and quelled the "Who Is He/She?", game. Therefore, this book is now completely outdated, irrelevant, and not worth the effort. This book was a wasted effort from the beginning, however, now it is not even worth the paper it is printed on.
