Slow Burn: Watergate

Season 1: Bonus Episode 4
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Episode Notes

This week, Leon Neyfakh talks to Rob Caughlan, the founder of the National Sam Ervin Fan Club. Leon is also joined by Slate writers Henry Grabar and Katy Waldman for a pop-up Watergate book club. They discuss Mask Of State: Watergate Portrait by Mary McCarthy.

Season one of Slow Burn was produced by Leon Neyfakh and Andrew Parsons. Bonus episodes for the season were produced by Leon Neyfakh and Jeff Friedrich.

About the Show

You think you know the story, or maybe you don’t. But Watergate was stranger, wilder, and more exciting than you can imagine. What did it feel like to live through the scandal that brought down President Nixon? Find out on this eight-episode podcast miniseries hosted by Leon Neyfakh. Made possible by Slate Plus members.

Read Leon Neyfakh’s introduction to Season 1.

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