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This little book is a must-have for anyone who joined the national Watergate fan club immediately after the scandal broke in the early 1970s. Maureen Dean's account, speckled delightfully with detailed descriptions of the clothing/accessories other Watergate women are wearing, is comically young-minded. Even so, its emanations form an illuminating penumbra (if that's possible) that reveals the spirit of the Nixon White House; a good example is the style of the fake-serious interoffice memo which John Dean submitted to Haldeman asking for time off to marry Mo.

An excellent companion piece to this book is "Silent Coup," which adduces other, darker facets of John's and Mo's relationship. Read "Mo" first, while you're still in the mood for levity.

John Dean's many enemies didn't have to worry about discrediting him - his wife takes care of it in her self serving memoir.
John Dean is Mo's third husband. When they first met he didn't bother telling her that he was still married to a wife he later divorced and throughout the book he treats her like dirt. Their falling in love is described in a sickeningly fairy tale way. And it only gets better. Mo does let John have his say and attack his enemies through her book - She hates whoever he hates so there is a repeat of the pettiness in blind ambition, particularly the attacks on John Ehrlichman and Jeb Magruder.
I like this book because it is so ridiculous that it is humerous.