A review by scarlet_thomas
Bag Man: The Wild Crimes, Audacious Cover-Up, and Spectacular Downfall of a Brazen Crook in the White House by Michael Yarvitz, Rachel Maddow

4.0

I had always been curious about Spirow Agnew, the only U S Vice President to ever resign. His name was often mentioned by my father because his resignation coincided with my dad’s appointment by Nixon to the federal judiciary. I had always assumed Agnew was an early Watergate casualty. Little did I know that his resignation was completely unrelated , and he was, in fact, the furthest away from that scandal as anyone in the Nixon Administration. The reason was he was such a crook that nobody trusted him. This was a really interesting read for me as a legal / political junkie, especially in the era when my dad was heavily involved in politics and knew a lot of the key players at the DOJ. Well-written biography of this completely unsympathetic character.