With a new introduction by the authors for the fortieth anniversary of its publication, the most devastating political detective story of the century, two "Washington Post" reporters, whose brilliant, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation smashed the Watergate scandal wide open, tell the behind-the-scenes drama the way it really happened.
The most devastating political detective story of the century: the inside account of the two Washington Post reporters who broke the Watergate scandal, now with a 40th anniversary Afterword on the legacies of Watergate and Richard Nixon.
This is the book that changed America. Published just months before President Nixon s resignation, "All the President s Men" revealed the full scope of the scandal and introduced for the first time the mysterious Deep Throat. Beginning with the story of a simple burglary at Democratic headquarters and then continuing through headline after headline, Bernstein and Woodward deliver a riveting firsthand account of their reporting. Their explosive reports won a Pulitzer Prize for "The Washington Post," toppled the president, and have since inspired generations of reporters.
"All the President s Men" is a riveting detective story, capturing the exhilarating rush of the biggest presidential scandal in US history as it unfolded in real time. It is, as "Time" magazine wrote in their All-Time 100 Best Nonfiction Books list, the work that brought down a presidency...perhaps the most influential piece of journalism in history. "