45 pages • 1 hour read
Rachel Maddow, Michael YarvitzBag Man: The Wild Crimes, Audacious Cover-Up, and Spectacular Downfall of a Brazen Crook in the White House
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more.
Key Figures
Rachel Maddow/Michael Yarvitz
Maddow, the host of the Emmy Award-winning Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC, holds a doctorate degree in politics from Oxford University and a Bachelor’s in public policy from Stanford. A professed political progressive, she covers politics and current affairs extensively, and her examination of the Agnew scandal takes on a very contemporary context. It is both enlightening and troubling that so little has changed in 50 years. Her expertise in politics and public policy allows her to dissect the inner workings of the Nixon administration, its interpersonal dynamics, and the strategies and motives of the players involved. While the Agnew scandal has been largely forgotten, she understands the tremendous impact it has had in the five decades since, and she puts it all into relevant perspective. She and Yarvitz also take the story’s sometimes complex and thorny legal processes and frame them in lay terms. Maddow has a gift for clarity, as seen on her show on which she breaks down complicated political issues in an accessible way, and that clarity is reflected in the engaging and lively prose style.
