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All the President's Men Hardcover – June 15, 1974
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- Print length349 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherSimon & Schuster
- Publication dateJune 15, 1974
- ISBN-10067121781X
- ISBN-13978-0671217815
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- Publisher : Simon & Schuster (June 15, 1974)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 349 pages
- ISBN-10 : 067121781X
- ISBN-13 : 978-0671217815
- Item Weight : 1.66 pounds
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,175,458 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Few journalists in America’s history have had the impact on their era and their craft as Carl Bernstein. For forty years, from All the President’s Men to A Woman-In-Charge: The Life of Hillary Clinton, Bernstein’s books, reporting, and commentary have revealed the inner-workings of government, politics, and the hidden stories of Washington and its leaders.
In the early 1970s, Bernstein and Bob Woodward broke the Watergate story for The Washington Post, leading to the resignation of President Richard Nixon and setting the standard for modern investigative reporting, for which they and The Post were awarded the Pulitzer Prize.
Since then, Bernstein has continued to build on the theme he and Woodward first explored in the Nixon years–the use and abuse of power: political, media, financial, cultural and spiritual power. Renowned as a prose stylist, he has also written a classic biography of Pope John Paul II, served as the founding editor of the first major political website, and been a rock critic.
The author of five best-selling books, Bernstein is currently also at work on several multi-media projects, including a memoir about growing up at a Washington newspaper, The Evening Star, during the Kennedy era, which will be released in 2016; and a dramatic TV series about the United States Congress for HBO. He is also an on-air contributor for CNN and a contributing editor of Vanity Fair magazine.
His most recent book was the national bestseller A Woman In Charge: The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton, acclaimed as the definitive biography of its subject, published by Knopf.
Bernstein’s magazine journalism and web commentary continue to combine rare reportorial ability with literary skill: from “The Ballad of John McCain,” a millennial portrait of the presidential candidate in Vanity Fair magazine, to ground-breaking Newsweek/Daily Beastc ommentaries in 2011 about the pernicious influence of Rupert Murdoch on the politics, journalism and popular culture of three continents.
Since his famous essay, “The Triumph of Idiot Culture,” a 1992 cover story for The New Republic about increasing sensationalism, gossip and manufactured controversy as staples of the American press, he has proved a prescient critic of his own profession.
With Woodward, Bernstein wrote two classic best sellers: All the President’s Men (also a movie starring Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman), about their coverage of the Watergate story; and The Final Days, about the denouement of the Nixon presidency.
His next book, a masterful memoir of his family’s experience in the McCarthy era, is titled Loyalties: A Son’s Memoir. He is also the co-author of the definitive papal biography, His Holiness: John Paul II and the History of Our Time, which detailed the Pope’s pivotal and often clandestine role in the fall of communism.
In 1977-78, Bernstein spent a year investigating the CIA’s secret relationship with the American press during the Cold War. The resulting 25,000-word article for Rolling Stone, entitled “The CIA and the Media,” was the first to examine a subject long suppressed by both American newspapers and the intelligence community.
A lesser-known part of Bernstein’s journalistic career is his tenure as a rock-critic at The Washington Post while a metro reporter before Watergate; he continues to write (very) occasionally about rock and classical music.
Bernstein was born and raised in Washington, DC and began his journalism career at age 16 as a copyboy for The Washington Evening Star, becoming a reporter at 19.
He lives in New York with his wife and is the father of two sons, one a journalist and the other a rock musician.
Bob Woodward is an associate editor of The Washington Post, where he has worked since 1971. He has shared in two Pulitzer Prizes, first in 1973 for the coverage of the Watergate scandal with Carl Bernstein, and second in 2003 as the lead reporter for coverage of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
He has authored or coauthored 18 books, all of which have been national non-fiction bestsellers. Twelve of those have been #1 national bestsellers. He has written books on eight of the most recent presidents, from Nixon to Obama.
Bob Schieffer of CBS News has said, “Woodward has established himself as the best reporter of our time. He may be the best reporter of all time.”
In 2014, Robert Gates, former director of the CIA and Secretary of Defense, said that he wished he’d recruited Woodward into the CIA, saying of Woodward, “He has an extraordinary ability to get otherwise responsible adults to spill [their] guts to him...his ability to get people to talk about stuff they shouldn’t be talking about is just extraordinary and may be unique.”
Gene Roberts, the former managing editor of The New York Times, has called the Woodward-Bernstein Watergate coverage, “maybe the single greatest reporting effort of all time.” In listing the all-time 100 best non-fiction books, Time Magazine has called All the President’s Men, by Bernstein and Woodward, “Perhaps the most influential piece of journalism in history.”
In 2018 David Von Drehle wrote, “What [Theodore] White did for presidential campaigns, Post Associate Editor Bob Woodward has done for multiple West Wing administrations – in addition to the Supreme Court, the Pentagon, the CIA and the Federal Reserve.”
Woodward was born March 26, 1943 in Illinois. He graduated from Yale University in 1965 and served five years as a communications officer in the United States Navy before beginning his journalism career at the Montgomery County (Maryland) Sentinel, where he was a reporter for one year before joining the Post.
Photos, a Q&A, and additional materials are available at Woodward's website, www.bobwoodward.com.
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Enter aspiring young Washington Post reporters Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward. With President Nixon's re-election committee denying any involvement in the plot, it appeared the Watergate story could have been ephemeral if not for the persistent investigative reporting of Woodward and Bernstein. Initially competing for the story, Woodward and Bernstein (sometimes referred to as "Woodstein") became partners when the advantages of working together became apparent to them. Contacts were mostly divided between the two so a personal relationship could be developed with sources, a journalistic necessity in the midst of a scandal in which few were willing to talk out of fear.
It wasn't long before the two reporters realized the plot went higher up than ever imagined. The sources who were willing to talk needed prodding and guesswork by Woodward and Bernstein in order to protect themselves. The most famous among these sources--and possibly the most famous informant in American history--was Deep Throat. The highly secretive man made sure that Woodward took extra precautions when scheduling middle-of-the-night meetings with him in a parking garage, which included taking several cabs to make sure he wasn't being followed. The only hint of his position in government that Woodward gives is his unique position to observe the Executive Branch. Throughout the book, Deep Throat provides accurate insider information, and turns out to be Woodward's most reliable source during the entire event.
Whether you lived through the Nixon presidency, or if the only thing you know is that Nixon resigned because of Watergate, this important book will give you the play-by-play in how investigative reporting contributed to the downfall of a president. "All the President's Men" reads like a political thriller from start to finish, and will leave you wanting more when it's over. For history buffs, political junkies, or any American who wants to know what Watergate was all about, this is an essential read. As my favorite book of all time, I can't recommend this book by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein highly enough.
Ha ha ha. But we digress.
My journalism career went in a different direction, which thankfully did not include talking to unwilling sources. Still, I can and should learn new skills, so I signed up for a masterclass with Bob Woodward. Which, naturally made me decide to read the book again. This time I was enthralled. And that, in part, is because brilliant journalism has once again become relevant.
Should you know of Woodward/Bernstein only in general "Oh weren't they the guys who discovered the Watergate break-in?" terms: In June, 1972, the two young Washington Post newspapermen began by covering an odd attempted robbery of the Democratic National Committee. A few years later, President Nixon resigned.
There were a LOT of dots necessary to connect those two events.
In one sense, this book is a recording of the history of the time: the people, events, cover-ups, and so on. After all, to this day we call any brouhaha a Something-Gate, and most of us think of Deep Throat as the long-unnamed senior administrative source, not of the movie from which title that name sprang.
The book is also obviously an example of journalism at work, which is ultimately a process of _noticing_. When Bernstein was sent to the courthouse where bail was set, he paid attention when McCord said he had been a security consultant for the CIA. If he'd been doodling in his notebook, instead...? What held my attention was the detail of the journalistic process, such as one of the reporters driving to a possible source's home to knock on the door, and what they said to make the individual feel at-ease (enough to share information anyway) -- as well as the relevant excerpt from the story that was published. And, sometimes, for what was left out.
All of this feels more poignant today, as a reminder that people in power -- who have reason to hide their activities -- do their best to obfuscate their behavior and to blame the media. At an October White House briefing, the press secretary Zeigler went on quite a rant: "Well, I think the opposition is clear. You know, since the Watergate case broke, people have been trying to link the case to the White House... and no link has been established... because no link exists." (Question: Why don't you deny the charges?) "I am not going to dignify these types of stories with a comment... It goes without saying that this administration does not condone sabotage or espionage or surveillance of individuals, but it also does not condone innuendo or source stories that make broad sweeping charges about the character of individuals."
In other words, concluded the book's authors, "The White House had decided that the conduct of the press, not the conduct of the President's men, was the issue."
I really enjoyed my re-read of the book. I dare say you will, too.
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Daneben ist es auch noch ein gutes Buch aus dem man lernt, dass kein Staat, egal wie gut, rechtsstaatlich und modern die Verfassung, die Regierungsstruktur ist oder, vor Missbrauch geschützt ist. Die Kontrolle der Macht ist daher immer ein Thema.
Wesentlicher Unterschied zwischen damals und heute ist, dass Journalismus, guter Journalismus immer noch wichtig ist, nur Zeitungen sind es nicht mehr. Sie sind nicht mehr fas einzige Medium, in dem sich Journalisten ausdrücken.
Es ist auch wichtig zu lesen, um sich klar zu machen, warum es kostenlose gute journalistische Angebote nicht geben kann. Wenn wir nicht zahlen, bezahlen diejenigen, welche das Thema sind oder sein sollten. Und die bezahlen nur für Journalismus, der ihnen nutzt. Wieviel er uns, dem Leser nutzt ist dabei nebensächlich.
Don't try to buy English books at Furet's Dunkirk - this seems to be a very dangerous bookseller without any care of the clients hit by falling (!) volumes.
"Woodstein" as they became known were very lucky to have Ben Bradlee in their corner. Even when the chipe seemed down and their leads had dried up, and the White House seemingly went on the attack mode Ben Bradlle said "We back our boys...the story is good".
The book is easy to read and flows like a good murder mystery than non fiction. The price is a little steep, but it is worth it. Great book.