The Watergate Girl
The Watergate Girl Obstruction of justice, the specter of impeachment, sexism at work, shocking revelations: Jill Wine-Banks takes us inside her trial by fire as a Watergate prosecutor.It was a time,…
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The Watergate Girl
Obstruction of justice, the specter of impeachment, sexism at work, shocking revelations: Jill Wine-Banks takes us inside her trial by fire as a Watergate prosecutor.It was a time, much like today, when Americans feared for the future of their democracy, and women stood up for equal treatment. Called "the mini-skirted lawyer" by the press, she fought to receive the respect accorded her male counterparts--and prevailed.In The Watergate Girl, Jill Wine-Banks opens a window on this troubled time in American history. At the crossroads of the Watergate scandal and the women's movement was a young lawyer named Jill Wine Volner (as she was then known), barely thirty years old and the only woman on the team that prosecuted the highest-ranking White House officials.
It is impossible to read about the crimes of Richard Nixon and the people around him without drawing