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Summary: Hard to get going.....
Review: Well i had to read this book for a program at my school called Accelerated reader, in my gr 11 english class. I heard about this book, and choose it without actually seeing the book. When i went to sign it out of the library i was shocked! It was like a History Textbook!! Just one big news story that wouldn't end! Because i hadn't lived through the Watergate scandal time period, i was like, "what on earth is going on!" It's so confusing, millions of names are thrown at you all at once, in which you are supposed to remember, not only who they are, but their significance in the novel as well! AHHHHH!!! SO i finally gave up and watched the movie, and took notes. Well then when i went to write my Accelerated Reader test on the computer, guess who got failed! I wish i had read the book, because some of the questions weren't in the movie and were straight from the textbook..(hehe i mean novel!)
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Summary: All the presidents B.S.
Review: What the? What was he smoking when he thought up this little pipe-dream? It's so unrealistic. It's entertaining, if you like science-fiction. I just waited and waited for the story, but it never came. Read this one to your kids to put them asleep, or if you want to add some more imagination to their diluted little lives.
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Summary: Explosive stuff, riveting, page-turning
Review: I'm not an American and have zero knowledge of Watergate beyond the fact that it was one of the great scandals in US history which brought down a president. Watching Anthony Hopkins in the movie "Nixon" proved equally baffling. That's when I picked up this book of all Nixon books in the market because I am a journalist myself. Woodward and Bernstein have written a riveting account of how their tenacity and persistence caused the unravelling of the Nixon administration. It is fast-paced, gives an adequate synopsis of Watergate to a first-time Nixon reader, and re-affirms the need for the Fourth Estate and investigative journalism. From another dimension, it gives an inside peek into how newspapers work, their struggles over what to put on the front page every morning, and the debates that go on in the editor's office. fascinating stuff.
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Summary: One of journalism's most important moments.
Review: There are two distinct camps when it comes to "All the President's Men." One side takes it as the recollection of two reporters who were there, who unearthed the story and found out what is currently as close as possible to the truth as is available right now. The other half calls it a bunch of "revisionist trash," claiming that Woodward and Bernstein were manipulated by politicians into bringing down a President. Ignore the latter camp. Books like "The Silent Coup" are the true "revisionist trash" and contain many factual inaccuracies. Woodward and Bernstein produced one of the most readable accounts of the entire affair and while the story is not necessarily a pleasant one to read (unless you like reading about how corrupt America has become as a country), it is important, intense and gripping. For anyone who is considering journalism or politics, it is a must read. This is one of those books that everyone in America should read.
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Summary: a great book
Review: i had to read this book for school and i was mad that i had to read it but by the end i was reading every spare moment i got
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Summary: Vital
Review: To those who claim that this book is dated, that it no longer applies, that it isn't of lasting historical importance, etc: you're wrong. I'm in high school and knew nada about the "cast of characters" (with the exception of Nixon) before I started reading. The book is indeed fast-paced, and confusing at times, but once I got into the plot it became the most amazing news story I've ever read. Writing this while the Flordia/Presidential election is still up in the air, it's relieving to know that the players in it are small fries compared to the corrupt men who used to run Washington--and that, although surrounded by a glut of trashy magazines, web sites, and newspapers, there are still noble institutions that will do their best to keep Watergate from ever happening again.
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Summary: ...
Review: With all the Clinton scandals that have gone on, and Clinton stayed in the White House, reading this book makes Nixon's transgressions seem positively quaint by comparison. This book had its effect in its day, but with the more recent publication of SILENT COUP that reveals that Alexander Haig was Deep Throat, and Woodward's disingenousness about the whole affair, and that John Dean was actually behind the break-in to get an address book of prostitutes' names that had his wife's name in it from the DNC, this book is like reading a pre-Columbus book about the earth being flat. It's out of date. Read it to see what affected the country, but not for its now unfactual facts. If you want to know about Watergate, read SILENT COUP: THE REMOVAL OF A PRESIDENT.
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Summary: good resource, bad journalism
Review: This book is a classic, not because of it's literary qualities but because it was first in the queue. Frankly, after re-reading it 25 years after watching the Watergate story unfold first-hand I wonder how my daughter, without the benefit of my prior knowledge, could ever really understand what happened back then and why it was important from this book. It clearly captures a lot of key facts, but does a lousy job of telling the story in a manner suited for the ages. A period piece at best.
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Summary: Essential for aspiring journalists, recommended to all
Review: I loved the movie "All the President's Men" when I watched it during a journalism class one summer at Northwestern University. But you know how movies are: they're always more exciting, more quick-paced than the books they're based on. Not so in this case. Woodward and Bernstein bring the All the President's Men -- and their interactions with them and with the people who worked for them -- to life in such a way that one needn't have lived through the Watergate era to understand what really happened. All we need to know now is who Deep Throat was!
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Summary: One of American Journalisms Finest Hours
Review: What is largely forgotten is that in the summer of 1972, Bob Woodward and Carl Berstein were two young but complete nobody reporters assigned not to political reporting but the Washington Post's Metro section. When they were assigned to cover a "fourth rate burglary" at the Watergate Hotel, it changed the course of their careers and of American History. It is no exaggeration that had more conventional Washington political reporters been assigned to the Watergate story, it might never have been exposed in enough detail to bring down Richard Nixon. This book is an American classic. Though it lacks historical perspective on the Watergate affair, it is vital to anyone who wants to understand the greatest American political crisis of the Post World War Two era.
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