<b><i>NEW YORK TIMES </i>BESTSELLER • The knockdown, drag-out, untold story of the <i>other</i> scandal that rocked Nixon’s White House, and reset the rules for crooked presidents to come—with new reporting that expands on Rachel Maddow’s Peabody Award–nominated podcast</b><br><b><br>“Both a thriller and a history book, <i>Bag Man</i> is a triumph of storytelling.”—Preet Bharara, <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of</b><b><i>Doing Justice</i></b><b>and host of the podcast <i>Stay Tuned with Preet</i></b><br><br> Is it possible for a sitting vice president to direct a vast criminal enterprise within the halls of the White House? To have one of the most brazen corruption scandals in American history play out while nobody’s paying attention? And for that scandal to be all but forgotten decades later?<br><br> The year was 1973, and Spiro T. Agnew, the former governor of Maryland, was Richard Nixon’s second-in-comma