LAWRENCE (AP) – The University Press of Kansas is publishing a new book about the reasons the man known as “Deep Throat” helped newspaper reporters in the Watergate case.

The book by author Max Holland is entitled “Leak: Why Mark Felt became Deep Throat.” The Lawrence Journal-World reports that in the book, Holland says Felt was upset that he was had not been immediately chosen to lead the FBI after J. Edgar Hoover died.

Felt provided reporters in 1972 and 1973 with information that exposed the Nixon administration’s obstruction of an FBI investigation. Nixon resigned in 1974.

Michael Briggs, editor-in-chief at the University Press in Lawrence, edited the book. He said the University Press of Kansas has taken a special interest in the topics of American politics,
American history and military studies.