All the President's Men by Carl Bernstein

Tracing Watergate, and the quasi-legal entanglement of activities of which Watergate was only a part, from pawns like James McCord and Donald Segretti all the way to the President's innermost circle of allies was no small feat. 'In spite of its slow start, All the President's Men is the riveting story of the investigative calisthenics Washington Post reporters Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward performed to uncover one of the greatest political scandals in American history. Their explosive reports won a Pulitzer Prize for The Washington Post, toppled the president, and have since inspired generations of reporters.Īll the President’s Men is a riveting detective story, capturing the exhilarating rush of the biggest presidential scandal in US history as it unfolded in real time. 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. One of Time magazine’s All-Time 100 Best Nonfiction Books, this is the book that changed America.

The most devastating political detective story of the century: two Washington Post reporters, whose brilliant, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation smashed the Watergate scandal wide open, tell the behind-the-scenes drama the way it really happened. “The work that brought down a presidency.perhaps the most influential piece of journalism in history” ( Time)-from Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, #1 New York Times bestselling authors of The Final Days.

All the President's Men by Carl Bernstein