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The Canfield decision

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Vice President Spiro Agnew was famous for his verbiage against critics of the Nixon White House. He became infamous for resigning from the post in 1973 to plead no contest to criminal charges of tax evasion and money laundering due to accepting bribes when governor of Maryland.

His novel explores a Vice President whose political career is in great jeopardy when caught in a maelstrom of controversy, which is not what it all appears to be within the court of public opinion. Agnew depicts the depths that politics can plummet and how the real story may be lost in the games reserved exclusively for The Beltway.

The theme is timeless and Agnew does an excellent job in telling the rest of the story in the chess match of power, where fact and fiction becomes as garbled as truth and lies.

This book is not the best political novel ever conceived. It's the story of a vice-president who falls into disgrace. It's a bit dated, especially after the events (affairs) of the Clinton Administration (the guilty VP in the novel has the character of a Sunday School teacher compared to the shenanigans of the last 8 years).

It is interesting, however, in that the author is none other than Spiro T. Agnew -- an insider who knew something about the way the vice-presidency operated -- and who was no stranger to controversy.

A modest effort, but worth the read for those who enjoy the genre of the political novel, or for those who wonder what Agnew did in his spare time after leaving Washington!