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All the Presidents Men

All the President’s Men, by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, is the actual story of how Bernstein and his colleague Woodward broke the dramatic mystery that brought the downfall of President Richard M. Nixon. The Watergate scandal is one of the most unsettling political detective stories of the century. These journalists were able to put the scandalous pieces of the puzzle together and produce the series of stories that earned the Washington Post a Pulitzer Prize.
This book accurately portrays these two newspaper reporters working to expose criminal activities by a president, his advisors, and his political party. It displays the inner workings of a major newspaper, the Washington Post, and describes how many governmental institutions work. The book portrays a pivotal event in U.S. history and brings home the fact that Richard Nixon and his co-conspirators attempted nothing less than deliberate subversion of the U.S. Constitution and the democratic process.
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Posted by: Geraint Watts

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