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• 12 Jun 2012  culture  Leak: Why Mark Felt Became Deep Throat

Forty years after the Watergate scandal, my new book, Leak, investigates the motivation behind one of history’s most successful anonymous sources. [1 of 3]   today’s Very Short List: culture 12 Jun 2012 by Max Holland, a journalist and author who also edits the website Washington Decoded. WEBSITE  WASHINGTON DECODED  BOOK Subscribe Forward Share   This week, The Washington Post hosted a panel on how we remember Watergate. The storied paper is a captive of Woodward and Bernstein’s fairy tale. [2 of 3]   John Ford’s classic Western The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance is one of the best films on journalism, as it shows how a legend can trump the facts. [3 of 3]   Images (in order): cover of Leak: Why Mark Felt Became Deep Throat; photo by Florian Hirzinger via Wikimedia Commons; still from The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.		very short list is a delightful e-mail that shares cultural gems from a different curator every day. Subscribe Forward My Account Unsubscribe tech 11 Jun 2012 Paul Ingrassia On Real Fictional Cars food 8 Jun 2012 Annia Ciezadlo On Lebanese Chef Barbara Abdeni Massaad design 7 Jun 2012 Dylan Lathrop On The Shape Of Design

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[Anna]

"Leak" was recently featured on the Project On Government Oversight's "15 Books That Matter" summer reading list. The full list is here for those who are interested: http://getinvolved.pogo.org/site/PageNavigator/books_that_matter_summer_2012_reading.html.