All the President's Men

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Summary: Who, What?
Review: After watching the film of "All the President's Men" on cable several times and loving it every time I thought the book HAD to be better. The book is usually better than the movie, right? Boy was I disappointed. I was around during the Watergate era (in high school) and watched quite a bit of the hearings on T.V. But I found the book very hard to read. To me it was almost like reading the geneology sections in the Bible where so-and-so beget so-and-so, one name after another. Boring. Too many names thrown at me in too short a span. I kept expecting it to kick in and I'd be hooked. After maybe 20 pages of the book I said "enough" and watched the movie again.

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Summary: Definitely a read-again book! Great Job!
Review: I found out about this book in my 8th grade U.S. history class. I had to read it for a report but being a slacker I rented the movie instead. After seeing the film I rushed out to find the book at a local bookstore. I finished it in two days and started reading it all over. Great job Bernstein & Woodward!

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Summary: It was iteresting
Review: This book was very iteresting but it was not very good if you nare not interested in the whole idea of impeachment.

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Summary: A Great Detective Story about a REAL Impeachment Issue
Review: Having recently seen the movie for the 3rd time, and STILL not sure of "who" did "what" to "who", or "why", I picked the paperback version up over the past holiday...and read it in 3 days/nites. Yes, there ARE a LOT of "players", but the p'back version has a great listing of who they are, and their relationship to the story. With photos in the middle of the book, you even have a 2nd source of reference. While checking back and forth does take time...so did the uncovering of how totally corrupt the Nixon administration was. EQUALLY as valuable is the story of how the Washington Post editors and reporters went to GREAT lengths to confirm 2, and 3, and 4 times, the info they were discovering...to ensure "fair", and more importantly, "accurate" reporting. EVERY US citizen, not just those in school, should read this book to see just how low print/radio/TV "news" has sunk in the collective race to be "first to report", even if what is said is false. (Examples: The TWA explosion off Long Island, and Richard Jewell's (spell?) arrest for the Atlanta bombing.) What worked best for me: Saw the movie, then read the book, then watched the movie again with the list of players. I think you will never doubt that Nixon got off easy... especially since Gerry Ford gave him a "full pardon". Slick Willie Clinton is a true "bushleaguer" in comparison. Remember too, that Tricky Dick taped both enemies AND friends (and erased a bunch too), and he was PRESIDENT, not a GS-12 informant for Ken Starr. As I wrote in the beginning, a great detective story about one of the lowest points in US presidential history.

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Summary: A great book, but only if read in the 70's!
Review: As a college student taking Political Science, I was required to read this book for a paper over the Watergate scandel. While this book was extremely informative, it was written for people who already knew the players in the watergate affair and their relationships in Washington. Some 80 names are thrown at you in the first 50 pages alone. In short, this was not a book with which to begin your knowledge of watergate.

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Summary: It sucks!
Review: I thought that this book was the worst peace of literature to be put out on the book stands. it was a piece of crap!

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Summary: Fantastic Page Turner
Review: The account of the Watergate break-in provided by Woodward and Bernstein is a must read for all historians. Despite having knowledge of the ending, the thought of putting the book down is hard to swallow. With fantastic recall, Woodward and Bernstein retrace their investigative steps to provide a spellbinding account of the final months of the Nixon Presidency

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Summary: Couldn't put it down
Review: Even though the ending of the Watergate story is known to all, Bernstein and Woodward do an excellent job of relating the hustle and competition within the press corps and between the press and the government. I welcomed each new advance in the *Watergate scenario, and the ending does not let down the reader.

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Summary: Grisham - the fictitious version of Bernstein/Woodward
Review: If you get excited of stories/thrillers about the cold war in buisness - The Firm is a must to read. Attacs or defences in buisnes-wars are often much more genius and dramatic, than trite dogfighting in the middle-east.

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Summary: Great book, fascinating, but a bit technical at times.
Review: This book by the reporters who were in the midst of the Watergate scandal for quite a while, takes the reporter from the initial, seemingly meanless break in at Watergate, to the resignation of a president. I would recommend this book to someone who wants to know the details of Watergate, but this book is not "easy reading." The myriad of names can sometimes be confusing, but the end product is a great non-fiction mystery story. Very well written.