false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171070809m/86616.jpg 86616 11 Bob Woodward's secret man is no longer a secret, now that former FBI assistant director W. Mark Felt and his family have revealed that he was Deep Throat, Woodward's legendary anonymous source for his Watergate reporting. Soon after Felt made his identity known, Woodward, who "is prone to complete his homework before it is due or even assigned," according to the afterword by his reporting partner Carl Bernstein, himself revealed that he had been working on a manuscript in preparation for that moment, one that would after 30 years tell the inside story of their mysterious, and history-changing, relationship.<p> Certainly you get in <I>The Secret Man</I> the cloak-and-dagger details you'd expect--and are likely already familiar with from both the book and the superb movie of <I>All the President's Men</I>: the late-night garage meetings, the red flag in the flower pot, the whispered warning that lives were in danger. Woodward retells the still-riveting story of his and Bernstein's unearthing of the scandal with efficiency and with the last puzzle piece in place. And he is able both to explain some of Felt's motivations, as an FBI loyalist disgusted by Nixon staffers trying to run roughshod over his agency, and to trace some of his remarkable bureaucratic tactics, including commissioning an FBI leak inquiry and deflecting it away from himself. Most fascinatingly, he gives a warts-and-all account of his shameless youthful cultivation of Felt, beginning with their first encounter when Woodward was a bored Navy lieutenant on the make, just three years before being assigned to cover the arraignment of five men in business suits arrested in the offices of the Democratic National Committee. But in a crucial way this doesn't seem to be the book that Woodward had wanted to write, for Felt remains a mystery. A shadowy father figure during the Watergate period, Felt soon distanced himself from Woodward after running into legal trouble of his own, and they fell out of touch in the intervening years. When Woodward finally reestablished contact in 2000, Felt had lost most of his memory, and any understanding with his former source, with whom he was so closely tied in both his private and public lives, remained poignantly but frustratingly unreachable. <I>--Tom Nissley</I> 857030 7 2005 The Secret Man: The Story of Watergate's Deep Throat total:292|5:32|4:94|3:139|2:25|1:2| 292 1005 395 68 5 1 false false Sun Jun 07 13:23:15 -0700 2009 Sat Mar 28 07:11:35 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 07 13:23:15 -0700 2009
It’s not often that I’ll finish a book in two sittings. Since my work requires close attention to copy, or at least, attention to copy, I’m usually in no state to focus at the end of the day, so my reading time tends to be restricted to half an hour on the bike at the gym, first th...more...]]> 0 0 false false Thu Feb 05 09:34:23 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 09:34:23 -0800 2009 Poor Bob Woodward. He is the nation's most famous investigative reporter, and he gets scooped on the story he's been prepared to tell for 30 years__the identity of Deep Throat. Woodward rushed The Secret Man into print shortly after Felt exposed himself as Deep Throat to Vanity Fair magazine. It's n...

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Ok so I have finished reading this. It left me very unsatisfied. My major problem is that Woodward is very defensive...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Oct 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 08 16:35:45 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 08 16:42:41 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Jun 06 15:51:50 -0700 2008 Fri Jun 06 16:00:39 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 01 16:41:14 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 01 16:43:39 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=86616