I bought this paperback book during the 1970s as a teenager. I can't remember if I read the whole thing at that time, but I have recently retrieved it from my collection and read the whole thing. I have never seen the movie. (At the moment I am reading The Final Days, the book by the same authors that continues on with the story.)
Like some of the other reviews on this site that I have read for this book, I agree that as a source for the intrepid investigation activities of the young reporters, this is a valuable primary source. At the same time, it makes me want to read accounts of the same events by other authors. The authors here were so bold and narrow in their focus, that I don't think there was any time or inclination to talk about other interesting topics like their educational background and the style of their everyday work at the newspaper.

Of course, I realize that all of this can be found in other books. I know that Bob Woodward has continued to write since the time of this book. Probably Carl Bernstein too. So I'll finish The Final Days, and then bridge into whatever books from one or both of these two seem logical for the next selection.

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. ( )