All The President’s Men
Published just months before President Nixon’s resignation, All the President’s Men revealed the full scope of the scandal and introduced for the first time the mysterious Deep Throat. Beginning with the story of a simple burglary at Democratic headquarters and then continuing through headline after headline, Bernstein and Woodward deliver a riveting firsthand account of their reporting. Their explosive reports won a Pulitzer Prize for The Washington Post, toppled the president, and have since inspired generations of reporters.
Pages: 368 Pages
Writer: Robert Woodward and Carl Bernstein
Not to age myself to much but I was born after the events of Watergate. This was a part of history that was not really taught in school or at least during my schooling. So when I see comparisons with modern day politics to things that happened during Nixon’s time, then I often think was what Nixon did really as bad as some of the bozos (no offence to Bozo the clown) that we have now in politics. So I picked this book up to learn more. I have to say this is one tough read. It is a retelling of every conversation Woodward and Bernstein had while investigating this incident. You spend the entire book hearing and how he said this and then he said that, followed by more of he said this. Rinse and repeat. The most interesting part of this story was the parts that centered around the shadow figure Deep Throat. All of the then this was said does not add to much to the story. It just drags it out. The book is not a narrative of the events around but it is a retelling of the conversations that the authors had surrounding the events. It just becomes hard to read.
Overall this book didn’t really provide a great narrative to the events around Watergate. It is a series of conversation that helped the authors uncover the corruption. It all boils down to a very hard to read book not because the language is complex but because it just has a terrible presentation.