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High Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Term and Trials of Former Governor Evan Mecham by Ronald J. Watkins (
Wikipedia), a political scandal coverage account of the O_o inducing term of the late Arizona governor (
Wikipedia), originally out from HarperCollins' William Morrow imprint in 1990.
As previously mentioned, the blurb is a little skimpy, but the Publishers Weekly and Library Journal reviews both give a fairly decent description and also some praise for this.
When a small-town car dealer, more at war with his own political party than the opposition, finally wins office the result is impeachment. Complete with drama and humor this is the definitive account of the state impeachment of an American state governor.
Watkins also offers a bunch of apparently self-published mystery/suspense thrillers, if you're interested.
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L.A. Secret Police: Inside the LAPD Elite Spy Network by Mike Rothmiller & Ivan G. Goldman is an exposé of Exactly What It Says In The Title, written by one of the cops involved, originally out from Pocket Books in 1992 and updated with a new epilogue essay written by Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist David Cay Johnston (
Wikipedia). Rothmiller himself seems to be regularly invited by the media to speak on police-related issues, e.g.
this article from last year's (for 2014 values of "last year", since I'm copy-pasting all this from the previous Non-Fiction megathread) ABC 10 News (warning for auto-play video).
This incredible non-fiction book rips the lid off the LAPD and exposes the reader to its dark underbelly of corruption during the reign of Chief Daryl Gates. L.A. cops ruined lives and reputations, inflicted mindless brutality, committed murder and engaged in massive cover-ups. In Los Angeles, police corruption was much more than unmarked envelopes stuffed with cash. It was a total corruption of power. For decades LAPD engaged in massive illegal spying and lied about it. Its spying targets included politicians, movie stars, professional athletes, news reporters and anyone wielding power or those of interest to Daryl Gates. Incredibly, the spying targets included a Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, a Secretary of Defense, a current Governor and the President of the United States. It all happened in Los Angeles.
Detective Rothmiller is the modern-day Frank Serpico; he exposed the tentacles of corruption which reached to the highest levels within the LAPD and Washington D.C. It wasn’t long after that an assassin attempted to take his life. It was apparent to many that powerful forces wanted him silenced. Incredibly, in this book Detective Rothmiller names names! See why this book changed the LAPD and is required reading at many universities. As former Assistant United States Attorney Marvin Rudnick said, “Rothmiller was in a position to know. He did very sensitive work.”