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All the President's Men
In 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. Beginning with the story of a simple burglary at Democratic headquarters and then continuing with headline after headline,...more
Paperback, Reprint, 352 pages
Published
June 16th 1994
by Simon & Schuster
(first published 1974)
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This book was truly unbelievable. The entire time I was reading it, I kept reminding myself that this was real history and it all happened. There was so much drama in all the proceedings, and to realize that it’s the select few (in great positions) of the government beneath it all. I completely admire the reporting of these two individuals and their endless dedication to get the facts and the information correct and to the public, as well as keep their sources anonymous - I was in awe and amazem...more
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Pernah cerita ke Jenderal Hippo bahwa saya punya buku All the President's Men yang edisi terjemahannya. Dia tidak tahu ada yang versi terjemahannya. Oleh karenanya saya unggah ke sini. Inilah buku yang dibincangkan waktu itu. Ternyata lagi...nampaknya buku ini penerbitnya sama dengan A Bridge too Far versi Pesantren itu. Sama lebaynya terutama. liat aja endorsement yang ada di halaman belakang buku ini
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Jul 17, 2007
Ben Kintisch
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4 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Recommends it for:
politicos/the morally outraged
If everything Bush does makes you queasy, here's a book remedy for your troubled stomach:
Learn all about the skeezy Nixon whitehouse!
Great spytastic scenes with DeepThroat, the best named secret source ever. Makes you wonder...did Woodward and Bernsteing love porn? Does deepthroat the pornstar love politics? And what do we think Bill Clinton thinks about all of this?
Learn all about the skeezy Nixon whitehouse!
Great spytastic scenes with DeepThroat, the best named secret source ever. Makes you wonder...did Woodward and Bernsteing love porn? Does deepthroat the pornstar love politics? And what do we think Bill Clinton thinks about all of this?
Ma'am, have you got any more than just the facts? This first-hand account of the Washington Post reporting that exposed and ultimately led to the demise of Nixon's administration reads very much like a down and dirty summary of the story notes gathered by two young and very self-assured journalists. This is one instance in which the movie was better than the book. The product is not at all a nuanced or rich historical account, but rather an amalgamation of facts, facts, and more facts. While fac...more
Apr 30, 2008
Patrick
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5 of 5 stars
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Wow. Loved this book! I hear the movie is confusing though, which I can understand from the weird pseudo-third person, stream of consciousness style of the writing. The two authors tell their adventure in third person--I guess it makes it more clear since you have two different recollections and they switch back and forth a lot. These two reporters were two of the most important in investigating the Whitewater scandal of President Nixon.
This isn't for everyone. My wife's book club tried this, a...more
This isn't for everyone. My wife's book club tried this, a...more
This is my favorite book.
The first time I read it I was a junior in high school who didn't pay a ton of attention in American History and thus really didn't know how the story was going to end.
I am perfectly willing to admit now what I didn't know then, which is that even Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein (who I love with a love that is true and pure) weren't telling the whole Watergate story. They told the part of the story they were in, which is A) necessarily biased and B) not anywhere near th...more
The first time I read it I was a junior in high school who didn't pay a ton of attention in American History and thus really didn't know how the story was going to end.
I am perfectly willing to admit now what I didn't know then, which is that even Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein (who I love with a love that is true and pure) weren't telling the whole Watergate story. They told the part of the story they were in, which is A) necessarily biased and B) not anywhere near th...more
It is amazing to me that, as someone who has been a print journalist for nearly 13 years -- and whose grandparents ran a newspaper for 40 years two generations behind him -- that I never read this until now. (Note: my library had an original 1974 printing and not the one with the cover shown here.)
The only reason I have it only 4 stars (and wish it could have been 4-1/2) is because the writing style can be a bit stilted at times. It doesn't read like a novel but as a cooperative journal. Aside f...more
The only reason I have it only 4 stars (and wish it could have been 4-1/2) is because the writing style can be a bit stilted at times. It doesn't read like a novel but as a cooperative journal. Aside f...more
Dunia politik memang dipenuhi dengan berbagai intrik, issue paling poluler abad ini adalah mengenai Partai Demokrat, saat pemerintahan Nixon berkuasa, 1972. Berawal ditahannya lima orang pada 17 Juni 1972 pukul 02.30 dini hari oleh pihak berwajib karena kedapatan membobol Markas Besar Komite Nasional Demokrat dan memasang alat penyadap guna mendapatkan informasi penting mengenai Partai Demokrat. Para pembobol disinyalir merupakan saingan politik Partai Demokrat.
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Mar 08, 2013
Erik Graff
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Recommends it for:
Americans
Recommended to Erik by:
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What came to be called the Watergate Scandal began while I was in college with the break-in at the offices of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist's office during September of 1971. Ellsberg was the man who had leaked The Pentagon Papers to The Washington Post and The New York Times after becoming disaffected from the war we were imposing on Vietnam. The break-in was conducted by Richard Nixon's personal black-ops team usually termed "the plumbers" given that their initial purpose was to plug such emb...more
Yes, this is book is often as dry as the dust of Nixon's bones. But you still need to read it for two reasons ~ 1) historical significance and 2) so you can wonder (as I do) what the hell has happened to journalism in this country.
First of all, this book is extremely important in a historical sense. I had the impression that the Washington Post was the only paper on this issue (don't know why I thought that, in retrospect) and they had dropped all of these bombshells all at once that led to Nixo...more
First of all, this book is extremely important in a historical sense. I had the impression that the Washington Post was the only paper on this issue (don't know why I thought that, in retrospect) and they had dropped all of these bombshells all at once that led to Nixo...more
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All The President’s Men, by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, Narrated by Richard Poe, Produced by Simon and Schuster Audio, Downloaded from audible.com.
Somehow I never got around to reading about the Watergate scandal when it occurred 40 years ago, and I didn’t pay a lot of attention to it on television when the hearings were televised. But even with my limited attention, I realized that this set of circumstances changed how we see politics in America. It was the very first election in which I c...more
Somehow I never got around to reading about the Watergate scandal when it occurred 40 years ago, and I didn’t pay a lot of attention to it on television when the hearings were televised. But even with my limited attention, I realized that this set of circumstances changed how we see politics in America. It was the very first election in which I c...more
Uncovering one of the worst government scandals in history is not an easy task, especially when it starts out as a basic break-in. Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, with the help of “Deep Throat”, the two men who uncovered the scandal, had to go through extraordinary lengths to get through the tangled web of information to uncover the real reason why those men were in the Watergate Hotel.
The book starts out dry, slow, and choppy, but quickly picks up its pace when it is realized that this was mo...more
The book starts out dry, slow, and choppy, but quickly picks up its pace when it is realized that this was mo...more
I was in high school when Richard Nixon died, but I was young and my interests at that time weren't exceptionally political. My concerns at that time had more to do with Kurt Cobain's death just a few weeks prior. That meant more to me than that Nixon guy. I do remember having breakfast at a friend's house around the time of Nixon's death, and her stepfather having trying to have a conversation with me about it. He was a strange guy, and looking back I'm not sure if he was particularly the safes...more
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This is not so much the story of the Watergate mess, as the story of the story of the Watergate mess. It is a third person account of the adventures of the Washington Post's Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, who won a Pulitzer prize for their investigation and reportage which broke the scandal wide open, as they wade through the facts and rumors of what proved to be the most explosive corruption crisis of 20th century American politics, bringing down a Presidency, and sending many of of Nixon's c...more
Mar 30, 2010
FiveBooks
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Investigative journalist Nick Davies has chosen to discuss Phillip Knightley's
A Hack’s Progress
, on FiveBooks as one of the top five on his subject - Investigative Journalism, saying that:
“Knightley is simply an amazing journalist. He was on the Insight investigation team at the Sunday Times while it was under the editorship of Harry Evans. And, as with All the President’s Men, it's a book that has two different kinds of appeal – for a journalist, it's full of technical insight about what wor...more
“Knightley is simply an amazing journalist. He was on the Insight investigation team at the Sunday Times while it was under the editorship of Harry Evans. And, as with All the President’s Men, it's a book that has two different kinds of appeal – for a journalist, it's full of technical insight about what wor...more
Here is one of those books that I never caught up with, having seen the Redford/Hoffman movie version. The 40th anniversary of original publication of 'All The President's Men' is almost here, and I finally catch up on Bernstein and Woodward's Pulitzer winner. Not before time, indeed!
If this plot were featured in a fictional storyline, many would be the calls that this tale is as far fetched as crap from China. Ridiculous to believe that such scandalous crimes could be contrived from the centre...more
If this plot were featured in a fictional storyline, many would be the calls that this tale is as far fetched as crap from China. Ridiculous to believe that such scandalous crimes could be contrived from the centre...more
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Excuse me, I'll be a journalism cliche for the next two days.
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In twenty or thirty years from now, soon-to-be adults will learn about major events at the beginning of the 21st century (9/11, two wars, Katrina, first African-American president), and "get-it" in the sense they'll be learning about how history flows from one another and ultimate ramifications of the events, but there's no way you can truly get across the feeling of *being* there, of seeing history unspool in real time.
All the Pre...more
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In twenty or thirty years from now, soon-to-be adults will learn about major events at the beginning of the 21st century (9/11, two wars, Katrina, first African-American president), and "get-it" in the sense they'll be learning about how history flows from one another and ultimate ramifications of the events, but there's no way you can truly get across the feeling of *being* there, of seeing history unspool in real time.
All the Pre...more
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. 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. Bernstein and Woodward's...more
All the President's Men is a bit of a peculiarity on my end. For my college Journalism class, we watched the movie version of this book towards the end of the semester. What drew me to the book wasn't, however, that I liked the movie. Quite the opposite; I found the movie to be uninteresting and generally boring. But as a then-aspiring journalistic writer, I assumed that the book might be a more worthwhile trip as I'd be reading instead of watching. With regards to the book, I'll say that, despi...more
I have to admit I knew nothing about Watergate before I read this book. The whole story, told in a very good reporter's language in this book, wasn't really shocking for me. Maybe because I live in Russia and 99% of political figures are somehow corrupted here and the whole political system is a CRP, working in interests of a certain person. However, I can understand the importance and the impact of Watergate in the USA. As I see it, Watergate is an example of how democracy should work - the pol...more
I expected this book to end with Nixon resigning. Instead it ends when the book was published, in early 1974, so everything is sliding downhill fast for Nixon but he's still holding on.
The Watergate story is a blur of names and little pieces of information piling up slowly, which in some ways doesn't make for the best read ever. I kept losing track and asking "who is Magruder again?" But that's also what makes it great. I imagined myself in their shoes halfway through this story. I'm pretty sure...more
The Watergate story is a blur of names and little pieces of information piling up slowly, which in some ways doesn't make for the best read ever. I kept losing track and asking "who is Magruder again?" But that's also what makes it great. I imagined myself in their shoes halfway through this story. I'm pretty sure...more
Woodward and Bernstein's book, All the President's Men: the story of journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein investigating the Watergate scandal, its ensuing coverup by the White House, and how Nixon's presidency
This book is a thriller from start to finish, and astonishing if it is an accurate retelling. You may feel like you are reading All the President's Men, starring Jason Statham (and possibly Hugo Weaving as one or more g-men). There's excitement and tension, and (since it's written b...more
This book is a thriller from start to finish, and astonishing if it is an accurate retelling. You may feel like you are reading All the President's Men, starring Jason Statham (and possibly Hugo Weaving as one or more g-men). There's excitement and tension, and (since it's written b...more
Lately I have been innundated with feelings of deja vu with the news regarding the Fast and Furious questions, among other items in the news. My mind kept going back to Watergate and I couldn't help thinking this is just how it began then. Bits of news, slowly accumulating and growing, drip by drip if you will. Names from those times kept lining up in my head to match today's players and I began to wonder if my memories of it were accurate at all. So I re-read the book and find they are accurate...more
All The President’s Men Book Review
In the 1968 presidential election, Richard Nixon took the popular vote over Hubert Humphrey to become President of the United States of America. Nixon became and remained an American hero until the Watergate break-in on June 17, 1972. Many parties, including the FBI, reporters Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, and the government, investigated the Watergate scandal. For a year-and-a-half, the conspirators of the burglary were somewhat of a mystery, and few Ameri...more
In the 1968 presidential election, Richard Nixon took the popular vote over Hubert Humphrey to become President of the United States of America. Nixon became and remained an American hero until the Watergate break-in on June 17, 1972. Many parties, including the FBI, reporters Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, and the government, investigated the Watergate scandal. For a year-and-a-half, the conspirators of the burglary were somewhat of a mystery, and few Ameri...more
If someone had published this as fiction in, say, the late 60s, they would probably have been ridiculed as conspiracy theorists, ha, ha, ha. But it wasn't - it was the true story of the unravelling of the Nixon administration in the early 70s.
I and millions of other people were glued to the newspapers and TV every day for the duration, each day saying things like 'I can't believe it' and 'surely not' until the next revelation shuffled to the surface of the particularly muddy pond that was Americ...more
I and millions of other people were glued to the newspapers and TV every day for the duration, each day saying things like 'I can't believe it' and 'surely not' until the next revelation shuffled to the surface of the particularly muddy pond that was Americ...more
This was a great book, and was actually pretty suspensful at times. I especially liked when Woodward and Bernstein connected certain dots with their investigative reporting, which uncovered a larger and larger scheme that went way beyond the Watergate break in. You could really feel the power behind what these two reporters were learning through their contacts who would supply the information for their news stories. The implications of such an abuse of power by very powerful men must have been n...more
I like that they wrote the book in the third person; it would have been difficult to read, I think, if the perspective kept changing from Woodward to Bernstein.
It's a whole lot of story, and no matter what, it's difficult to keep track of the characters. But they managed to keep the story flowing along well enough that the immense cast doesn't become overwhelming.
I was a bit put off by the fact that they rushed this to publication before everything was over (and in fact while the Guild was on s...more
It's a whole lot of story, and no matter what, it's difficult to keep track of the characters. But they managed to keep the story flowing along well enough that the immense cast doesn't become overwhelming.
I was a bit put off by the fact that they rushed this to publication before everything was over (and in fact while the Guild was on s...more
Sure, the style is a little dry and factual, with only occasional forays into emotion and sensation. I found it particularly hard to keep track of all the people - so hard that the authors provide a cheat sheet at the beginning of the book. "These are the people, these are the events, and this is how they unfolded," Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein seem to be telling us.
But the story of Watergate between 1971 and 1974, told through the filter of Woodward and Bernstein's Washington Post investigat...more
But the story of Watergate between 1971 and 1974, told through the filter of Woodward and Bernstein's Washington Post investigat...more
I can honestly say this is one of my favorite books of all time. I found it thrilling that this kind of drama occurred in our own White House (obviously followed by subsequent drama experienced since then!) and how two lowly reporters could uncover such truths in such a risky way. I’ve also ready Final Days, and while not as popular, it is worth reading if you loved this book. It picks up right where All the President’s Men left off and doesn’t skip a beat.
Also, rarely do I recommend seeing mov...more
Also, rarely do I recommend seeing mov...more
I devoured this book when it was published along with other books on Watergate and all that led up to it and followed after.
This is the story of two reporters, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, whose investigations published in the Washington Post contributed to bring down the Nixon administration. To me the story was and is dramatic and constantly riveting. I loved the details of the characters involved and how the story developed. This was living history for me at the time, and the story was ju...more
This is the story of two reporters, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, whose investigations published in the Washington Post contributed to bring down the Nixon administration. To me the story was and is dramatic and constantly riveting. I loved the details of the characters involved and how the story developed. This was living history for me at the time, and the story was ju...more
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Carl Bernstein is an American journalist who, as a reporter for The Washington Post along with Bob Woodward, broke the story of the Watergate break-in and consequently helped bring about the resignation of United States President Richard Nixon. For his role in breaking the scandal, Bernstein received many awards; his work helped earn the Post a Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 1973.
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“To those who will decide if he should be tried for 'high crimes and misdemeanors' -the House of Representatives-
And to those who would sit in judgment at such a trial if the House impeaches -the Senate-
And to the man who would preside at such an impeachment trial -the Chief Justice of the United States, Warren Burger-
And to the nation...
The President said, 'I want you to know that I have no intention whatever of ever walking away from the job that the American people elected me to do for the people of the United States.'
- Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward”
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And to those who would sit in judgment at such a trial if the House impeaches -the Senate-
And to the man who would preside at such an impeachment trial -the Chief Justice of the United States, Warren Burger-
And to the nation...
The President said, 'I want you to know that I have no intention whatever of ever walking away from the job that the American people elected me to do for the people of the United States.'
- Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward”
“June 17, 1972. Nine o'clock Saturday morning. Early for the telephone. Woodward fumbled for the receiver and snapped awake. The city editor of the Washington Post was on the line. Five men had been arrested earlier that morning in a burglary attempt at Democratic headquarters, carrying photographic equipment and electronic gear. Could he come in?”
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