The Watergate Girl: My Fight for Truth and Justice Against a Criminal President
Jill Wine-Banks, "The Watergate Girl: My Fight for Truth and Justice Against a Criminal President"
English | ISBN: 1250244323 | 2020 | 272 pages | MOBI | 1235 KB
English | ISBN: 1250244323 | 2020 | 272 pages | MOBI | 1235 KB
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. 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. Called “the mini-skirted lawyer” by the press, she fought to receive the respect accorded her male counterparts―and prevailed.
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