Your reading list ahead of the new season of Slow Burn
Photo: The vendors If you couldn’t get enough of the podcast Slowburn’s deep dives into Watergate and the Clinton impeachment, or of Fiasco’s close look at the Bush versus Gore legal battle, we have good news: This week, host Leon Neyfakh returns with the second season of Fiasco, this time honing in on the Iran-Contra affair.
$44 at Amazon Buy $44 at Amazon Buy Landslide: The Unmaking of the President, 1984-1988 by Jane Mayer and Doyle McManus A marvel of co-authorship by Jane Mayer, who covered Reagan for the Wall Street Journal, and Doyle McManus, who covered Central America for the L.A. Times.
$20 at Amazon Buy $20 at Amazon Buy Iran-Contra: Reagan's Scandal and the Unchecked Abuse of Presidential Power by Malcolm Byrne This book, written by the unofficial dean of Iran-Contra studies, splits the difference between academic meticulousness and journalistic flare. When we’re fact-checking season two of Fiasco, the phrase most commonly uttered in our office tends to be, “Check Byrne.”
$28 at Amazon Buy $28 at Amazon Buy Opening Arguments: A Young Lawyer's First Case : United States Vs. Oliver L. North by Jeffrey Toobin Before Jeff Toobin was a famous journalist, he was a pipsqueak of a lawyer working in the office of the Iran-Contra independent counsel. After Toobin quit and wrote this book, his former boss tried to stop it from coming out, and Toobin’s publisher sued him.
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