John Dean Rips New 'Deep Throat' Book in Review

By E&P Staff

Published: May 06, 2006 2:35 PM ET

NEW YORK John Dean, the former Nixon counsel, knows a thing or two about Watergate, and in a review to be published in The New York Times on Sunday, he lacerates the new memoir by (or claimed to be by) "Deep Throat," a.k.a. W. Mark Felt.

Dean writes bluntly that the book "adds absolutely nothing to our understanding about Felt's role as Bob Woodward's source during Watergate."