Prior to 2016, Nixon’s vice president Spiro Agnew was perhaps the most corrupt member of a White House administration in American history. In Bag Man, Rachel Maddow and Michael Yarvitz tell the story of a “criminal [who} spewed firebrand rhetoric to rile up his partisan base, branded the press as an enemy and dismissed investigations into his antics as ‘witch hunts,’ all to distract from a tawdry corruption scandal.”*

Maddow joins Michael Beschloss for an online discussion of the American polity—past, present, and future. See link below to register.

RACHEL MADDOW and MICHAEL BESCHLOSS IN CONVERSATION

Temple Emanu-el Streicker Center

Tuesday, December 15.

8:30 am on the West Coast; 11:30 am East Coast.

From top: Rachel Maddow, courtesy and © MSNBC: Maddow, Bag Man (2020) cover image courtesy and © Crown; Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew the day after their landslide re-election in November 1972, Bettmann Archive via Getty Images; Michael Beschloss, courtesy of the author.