The Deferential Spirit
On Bob Woodward’s “rather eerie aversion to engaging the ramifications of what people say to him.”
On Bob Woodward’s “rather eerie aversion to engaging the ramifications of what people say to him.”
Joan Didion New York Review of Books Sep 1996 25min Permalink
Deep Throat, unmasked.
John D. O'Connor Vanity Fair Jul 2005 30min Permalink
A prescient case for W. Mark Felt as journalism’s most famous leaker.
James Mann The Atlantic May 1992 Permalink
Ben Bradlee’s nagging concerns about Deep Throat.
Jeff Himmelman New York Apr 2012 20min Permalink
Woodward and Bernstein’s other anonymous sources.
Max Holland Newsweek Oct 2014 Permalink
The Watergate reporters look back.
In the course of his five-and-a-half-year presidency, beginning in 1969, Nixon launched and managed five successive and overlapping wars — against the anti-Vietnam War movement, the news media, the Democrats, the justice system and, finally, against history itself. All reflected a mind-set and a pattern of behavior that were uniquely and pervasively Nixon’s: a willingness to disregard the law for political advantage, and a quest for dirt and secrets about his opponents as an organizing principle of his presidency.
Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein Washington Post Jun 2012 15min Permalink