New publication released: Watergate Remembered: The legacy for American politics
Professor Iwan Morgan (Institute for the Study of the Americas) has produced a co-edited study with Michael Genovese, Watergate Remembered: The legacy for American politics (New York: Palgrave, 2012).
Watergate Remembered examines Watergate as a constitutional crisis rather than a scandal, the more conventional label, and evaluates its enduring significance for late 20th and early 21st century American politics, notably regarding the perpetuation of the imperial presidency, scandal politics, campaign finance reform, the public presidency, and cinematic imagery.
The book grew out of a US Presidency Centre symposium on Watergate, held at the Institute for the Study of the Americas in late 2009, and was expanded into an international collaboration in association with the Institute of Leadership Studies at Loyola-Marymount College, Los Angeles. It is simultaneously published in both hardback and paperback, and contains original research essays by four UK scholars and five US scholars.
Iwan Morgan is Professor of United States Studies and Deputy Director of the Institute for the Study of the Americas. He is Director of the Institute's United States Presidential Centre. He was also recently involved in helping to launch the US broadcaster, PBS, in the UK in late 2011. Iwan was invited to participate with Paul Gambaccini, Bonnie Greer, and Sir Bob Worcester in drawing up the list of The Best of America, the top 100 US achievements (in ten selected categories) that have had most impact on the UK to celebrate the national launch of this prestigious US channel.
