Audio Book. Twenty bestselling books. Fourteen 1 best-sellers:. Supreme Court , Nixon. He and Carl Bernstein were the main reporters on the Watergate scandal for which the Post won the Pulitzer Prize in He may be the best reporter of all time. Woodward has authored or co-authored 17 national nonfiction bestsellers.
Twelve have been 1 national bestsellers — more than any contemporary non-fiction author. Woodward was born March 26, , in Illinois. Bernstein," Ziegler stated in May , adding, "They have vigorously pursued this story and they deserve the credit and are receiving the credit. Woodward and Bernstein soon became synonymous with investigative journalism, receiving wide acclaim for their journalistic work.
In addition to breaking the story, their in-depth reporting and powerful writing sparked one of the greatest political upsets in American history: Nationwide news coverage; investigations by the House Judiciary Committee, Senate Watergate Committee and Watergate Special prosecutor; and, ultimately, President Nixon's resignation and the criminal conviction of many others.
They followed with a Nixon-focused piece in , The Final Days. More than four decades since the Watergate scandal erupted, Woodward has never rested his laurels on his early s fame. In , he met with wide acclaim for his in-depth coverage of the September 11, terrorist attacks in New York City, which was printed in The Washington Post and led to another big win for the paper: the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting.
In addition to continuing his career at The Washington Post , Woodward has published 17 best-selling non-fiction books. Casey; and Obama's Wars , an analysis of America's fight against terrorism under President Barack Obama, among various other works.
More recently, in September , Woodward released The Price of Politics , a non-fiction book on the fiscal policy conflict between President Obama and Republicans in Congress. We strive for accuracy and fairness. Subsequently, the investigations of the Senate Watergate Committee, the House Judiciary Committee and the Watergate Special prosecutor showed that the Woodward-Bernstein reporting had been accurate and perhaps understated the scope and depth of the criminality and abuse of power.
The Senate report follows and supports much of the reporting by Bernstein and Woodward on the Watergate break-in, cover-up, Nixon White House and re-election campaign espionage, sabotage and fundraising. Often that nightmare turned out to be true. It was an unusual feeling for Seymour Hersh, the feeling that someone was always just a little ahead of him.
But Woodward and Bernstein did not simply renew, they extended the power of the muckraking image. For Steffens, the corruption was in the local and state governments while the White House was a resource for pressuring for reform, Shudson said.
If low and middle level campaign aides had been implicated, no one would remember Watergate, he said. But it would not be the heart of American journalism mythology. Watergate found a president guilty of crimes, waist-deep in deception and forced him from office. That makes Watergate, with all it complexities for the press, the unavoidable central myth of American journalism. Newsweek published excerpts in a cover story with three pictures of Nixon sweating, bewildered and despondent.
With stories of despair, heavy drinking by both Richard Nixon and his wife Pat, and talking to portraits of former presidents, Nixon was shown at the end of his emotional tether. Nixon emerges as a tragic figure weathering a catastrophic ordeal. Most notably Henry A. Nixon himself had harsh words for Woodward and Bernstein during the famous David Frost televised interviews in And I will never forgive them. Nixon read it, and her stroke came three days later.
There is no check on the networks. There is no check on the newspapers. The book provided the first detailed, inside, step-by-step account of how the court arrived at dozens of its decisions from to , including perhaps its most controversial decision, Roe v. Wade, in In his biography of the late Justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr. According to The Brethren, Brennan refused to change his vote because he did not want to offend Justice Harry Blackmun, who would be important on upcoming obscenity and abortion cases.
Lewis said that Hoeber later changed his story, which was supported by all but one of the other clerks on the court that term. Woodward and Armstrong stuck by their account. Hoeber and his three co-clerks for Brennan that year initially wrote a letter to the Post disputing the account in the case but when told of the notes from interviews with Hoeber, they withdrew their letter. Professor David J.
United States decision. The Supreme Court affirmed a lower court decision requiring Snepp to pay all his royalties to the government because he had not submitted his book for agency approval as required in his CIA contract.
Veil enumerated and described the secret covert actions of the Reagan administration in Nicaragua, Afghanistan, Libya, Cambodia, Iran, Angola and elsewhere. Woodward remains one of the best reporters of his generation, a man who knows how to play the subtle access game as well as anyone, and who emerges not only with his integrity intact, but with one hell of a story.
This is no archaeological dig through the skeletons of the past.
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