United States Bride

United States Bride

Why did The Princess Bride captivate America into the 12 months of Watergate? Nathaniel Rich revisits William Goldman’s classic latin bride and finds it grippingly readable—and bluntly truthful.

The stock market crashed, and Woodward and Bernstein revealed that there was more to the Watergate break-in than had first appeared in 1973—“the year of infamy”—the last American bombs were dropped on Cambodia, OPEC issued an oil embargo. Also by US requirements, it absolutely was minute of extravagant uneasiness, disillusionment, and mania. Continue reading