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Loading... All the President's Men (1974)by Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein
  
» 14 more 1970s (50) Books Read in 2017 (1,491) Swinging Seventies (13) Política - Clásicos (10) Well-Educated Mind (50) Alphabetical Books (11) discontinued (3) Books Read in 2003 (119) 1960s (226) Page Turners (98) No current Talk conversations about this book.   ) KallieGrace | Oct 16, 2023 |   ) AnonR | Aug 5, 2023 |  ) blueskygreentrees | Jul 30, 2023 | ) wt_dore | Jul 6, 2023 | What I liked about All the President's Men was how Bernstein and Woodward peel back the tight factual skin of newspaper reporting to reveal their own screw-ups and the humanity of their opponents. They repeatedly record that queasy moment when a journalist has to choose between a scoop and compassion. The greater good doesn't always win, but compassion can't compete with good copy: "As the cry of JEEEEEESUS was repeated, Bernstein had perceived the excruciating depth of Mitchell's hurt. For a moment, he had been afraid that Mitchell might die on the telephone, and for the first time Mitchell was flesh and blood, not Nixon's campaign manager, the shadow of Kent State, Carswell's keeper, the high sheriff of Law and Order, the jowled heavy of Watergate. Bernstein's skin felt prickly." [110] ( ) proustbot | Jun 19, 2023 |
 The best insight into how they [the USA] are governed. It is a work barren of ideas, of imagination, and of a sense of either the tragic or the comic aspects of the subject, and one that would be essentially boring if it were not for the historical importance of the events dealt with. The reportorial techniques employed by Bernstein and Woodward differ hardly at all from those that might be used by a pair of reporters examining the misdeeds of small-town grafters, and while this is not in itself a failing—small fish and large ones are caught by the same means—the lack of a sense of history diminishes the magnitude of the story. But this account will be indispensable to those who for one reason or another have not kept up with the running accounts of events and to those who will someday place it in its proper historical setting. The suspense in “All the President's Men” is more pervasive and finally more terrifying than a suspense story which holds its readers shivering in the darkness of graveyards and gothic castles because the setting is sunny Washington, D.C., a familiar place suddenly made unfamiliar by the presence of overwhelming fear. Disaffected C.R.P.. employes trembling in their doorways, wanting to be helpful but afraid of the consequences, plead with the sleuths never to call again. “Nobody knows what they'll do,” one employe said. “They are desperate.” Who are they?... Has the adaptation
Investigation and report of the burglary at the Watergate Hotel that culminated with President Richard Nixon's resignation from office. No library descriptions found. |
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