a lifetime achievement award from Brooklyn College, his alma mater. Among other awards, Sussman was named editor of the year by the Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild for his work on Watergate. Death Sussman died on June 1, 2022, at his home in Rockville, Maryland, due to gastrointestinal bleeding. Books The Great Coverup: Nixon and the Scandal of Watergate What Americans Really Think Maverick: A Life in Politics His book, The Great Coverup: Nixon and the Scandal of Watergate, was named by The New York Times as one of the best books of the year in 1974. He is also the author of What Americans Really Think, published by Pantheon in 1988, based on columns he wrote while pollster and public opinion analyst at The Washington Post, and Maverick: A Life in Politics, written with and about the former U.S. Senator and Governor of Connecticut, Lowell P. Weicker, Jr., published in 1995 by Little, Brown. References External links Barry Sussman bio at Nieman Watchdog The Author: The Great Coverup – Nixon and the Scandal of Watergate 1934 births 2022 deaths 20th-century American newspaper editors Brooklyn College alumni Deaths from gastrointestinal hemorrhage The Washington Post people Writers from Brooklyn