http://kios.org en http://kios.org/post/what-happened-watergate-alternate-take Nearly 40 years after the Watergate scandal, <em>Watergate</em>, Thomas Mallon's latest historical novel, captures both the metastasizing dishonesty and the ludicrousness of this great American tragedy of political ambition run amok.<p>The book considers the break-in — that botched "third-rate burglary" that was a bad idea in the first place made far worse by attempts at a cover-up (and then a cover-up of the cover-up) — from the perspectives of several of the perps and their supporters, as opposed to the legal team and journalists charged with untangling their unbelievably knotted web of dece Wed, 22 Feb 2012 22:52:00 +0000 Heller McAlpin 8745 at http://kios.org What Happened In 'Watergate': An Alternate Take