‘Gaslit’ may dramatize aspects of G. Gordon Liddy’s life, but the real story of the Watergate villain—which defies the limits of any miniseries—is even more unbelievable.
the Watergate reporter noted that “some of the book reads like a Smith & Wesson [catalog].” Woodward also called the “autobiographical aspect” of the book “disturbing,” but concluded, “As history and as a study in psychopathology the book is very good. It is the self-portrait of a zealot.”that was crucial to her understanding of the complex man.
“Liddy tells a story in his book about a childhood fear of lightning. At some point there was a terrible storm and a terrified young Liddy rushed outside, climbed a tree in his yard, and begged the sky to kill him. It’s the story itself and the way he tells the story—precise, deranged, but absolutely self-aware—which helped me understand him enough to write him.”in how rooted it is in the mind of a psychopath going to great pains to justify himself and his behavior.
“Liddy, unlike most of the other characters in our story, is a true believer,” she adds. “He doesn’t have the interests or ambitions of a political operator like John Dean. He’s a larger-than-life kind of character who I think thought of himself as a character.” This much is clear if you watch or listen to any of his TV or radio appearances as “himself”—like the 1986 WrestleMania 2and Rowdy Roddy Piper. Or the sixth season of
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