Ever since five men were arrested in a burglary at Democratic headquarters, Watergate has thrown a gigantic shadow over American political life. Nixon’s resignation and the events that lead up to it arguably did more than anything else in the second half of the twentieth century to shape our perception of the presidency.
All The President’s Men is the story of those events, as told by Washington Post reporters Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward: two men who, from the day the story first broke, were ever at the centre of the storm. Along with other investigative journalists like Seymour Hersh at the New York Times, in uncovering the truth about Watergate they did not merely report the news—they made the news.
Ever since five men were arrested in a burglary at Democratic headquarters, Watergate has thrown a gigantic shadow over American political life. Nixon’s resignation and the events that lead up to it arguably did more than anything else in the second half of the twentieth century to shape our perception of the presidency.
All The President’s Men is the story of those events, as told by Washington Post reporters Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward: two men who, from the day the story first broke, were ever at the centre of the storm. Along with other investigative journalists like Seymour Hersh at the New York Times, in uncovering the truth about Watergate they did not merely report the news—they made the news.