I was an early teenager during the Watergate scandal, and avidly followed the Senate Select Commitee hearings on Watergate, watching all the coverage I possibly could on TV. Therefore, this book was of great interest to me, and I found it totally absorbing. Someday, I'd like to read it again and see if it has the same impact. ( )

This is an excellent account of the Nixon years. It is very well-written and reveals how two dedicated people made a difference in American history. Do we still make journalists like these? I would like to think so. ( )

Decades after its publication, this behind-the-scenes look at the Watergate investigations lacks the impact it must have had, once. It reads like a procedural, with no panache, letting the events carry the story --- trouble is, the events have come and gone, and the major impact has been dissipated through the years. The broad sweep is common knowledge, and the details important only to junkies and scholars

If you've only a casual interest in Watergate, watch the movie adaptation. It, at least, has a sense of style. ( )

1286, All the President's Men, by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward (1 Sept 1974) Now, with Nixon gone, and having lived with Watergate for all these many months, I certainly had no intention of reading a book on the subject, But my partner gave this book to me, written by two Washington Post reporters who did so much to crack the case. I found it absorbing, especially the accounts of 1972 activities, which were at the time less publicized. The book is fast-paced, and in the ultimate triumph underwritten. It tells the behind the scenes story of how they put together their news stories. I heard Woodward at a meeting in June 1973--that was before the existence of the tapes was even known. He was a substitute speaker for Spiro Agnew! How nice to be rid of Agnew & Nixon both. ( )

I saw and enjoyed the movie, but had never read the book.

It was slow going, reading about painstaking shoe-leather reporting of this now-historic time. I wonder if ferreting out the story would have been easier in the Internet age. Maybe not, since the players would not have broadcast their activities on the Web.

I lived through the Watergate era. My mother yelled "Bitch! Bastard! Schmuck!" every night at the TV at the sight of Nixon's face. I was busy being a student and didn't pay close attention to what was going on.

I don't know if I'm jaded by subsequent events or just clueless, but what these guys did doesn't seem all that bad. Political espionage, dirty tricks, secret taping, and then covering it up? Don't all politicians do that?

What went on does seem worse than lying about sex with an intern. ( )