I first heard about Bridget Cleary when I read At the Bottom of the Garden: A Dark History of Fairies, Hobgoblins, Nymphs, and Other Troublesome Things specutlates that Bridget had an affair with a man called Simpson. The authors of this book dismiss that and put forward another man, a fellow egg s...
Superb journalism. On Watergate. Written just after Nixon's resignation. Among other things, Lukas correctly identified (in 1973)) Mark Felt as being the most likely candidate for 'Deep Throat'.
Angela Bourke's book The Burning of Bridget Cleary (New York: Viking Penguin, 2000) is vastly superior.