Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-267) and index.
Contents
Versions of Watergate. Thinking with Watergate: constitutional crisis or scandal? ; Revising Watergate: routine or aberration? ; Collective memory and Watergate. -- Watergate in American memory. Memory mobilized: making careers out of Watergate ; Memory contested: reform and the lessons of the past ; Memory mythologized: Watergate and the media ; Memory contained: conventionalizing Watergate ; Memory engrained: post-Watergate political expectations ; Memory ignited: the metaphor of Watergate in Iran-Contra ; Memory besieged: Richard Nixon's campaign for reputation. -- Remembering, forgetting, and reconstructing the past. The resistance of the past.