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Watergate Prosecutor Jill Wine-Banks: Nixon and Now

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 30 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.

In her new book, The Watergate Girl, Wine-Banks opens a window on this troubled time in American history. It is impossible to read about the crimes of Richard Nixon and the people around him without drawing parallels to today’s headlines: obstruction of justice, the specter of impeachment, sexism at work, shocking revelations. 

Come hear Wine-Banks personal story about her trial by fire as a Watergate prosecutor as well as revelations about our country, our politics and who we are as a society.

Notes

This program has been postponed

This program is part of our Good Lit series, underwritten by the Bernard Osher Foundation

Wine-Banks photo by Julie Kaplan Photography

May 13, 2020

The Commonwealth Club
110 The Embarcadero
Taube Family Auditorium
San Francisco, CA 94105
United States

Speakers
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Jill Wine-Banks

Legal Analyst, MSNBC; Author, The Watergate Girl: My Fight for Truth and Justice Against a Criminal President; Twitter@JillWineBanks