“It is our reward because it demonstrates that American journalism can be, and in its crucial hour was, conducted with the highest standards of ethics, the greatest concern for public interest, and a near-suicidal commitment to the pursuit of truth and justice.” This is what Ron Dorfman, a writer for the Chicago Tribune, said in 1974 about All the President’s Men. All the President’s Men is a historical non-fiction book written collaboratively by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward in 1974, both were investigative journalists reporting about the Watergate Scandal for the Washington Post.
This book chronicles the break-in at the Watergate and all the wrongdoings that followed. History.com explains this scandal and everything that went down by saying, “Early in the morning of June 17, 1972, several burglars were arrested inside the office of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), located in the Watergate building in Washington, D.C. The prowlers were connected to President Richard Nixon’s reelection campaign, and they had been caught while attempting to wiretap phones and steal secret documents…In August …show more content…
A quote from the book, “Bernstein looked like one of those counterculture journalists that Woodward despised. Bernstein thought that Woodward 's rapid rise at the Post had less to do with his ability than his Establishment credentials. They had never worked on a story together.” Both were the same age, and working for the same publisher, but they had little to no respect for each other. Woodward was born into money, he graduated from a good college and had reams of connections whereas Bernstein was a college dropout, but a far superior writer. In the beginning of the book Bernstein and Woodward were in competition, but they soon realized that if they worked together, they could combine their knowledge and resources and they realized that they worked well
This book chronicles the break-in at the Watergate and all the wrongdoings that followed. History.com explains this scandal and everything that went down by saying, “Early in the morning of June 17, 1972, several burglars were arrested inside the office of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), located in the Watergate building in Washington, D.C. The prowlers were connected to President Richard Nixon’s reelection campaign, and they had been caught while attempting to wiretap phones and steal secret documents…In August …show more content…
A quote from the book, “Bernstein looked like one of those counterculture journalists that Woodward despised. Bernstein thought that Woodward 's rapid rise at the Post had less to do with his ability than his Establishment credentials. They had never worked on a story together.” Both were the same age, and working for the same publisher, but they had little to no respect for each other. Woodward was born into money, he graduated from a good college and had reams of connections whereas Bernstein was a college dropout, but a far superior writer. In the beginning of the book Bernstein and Woodward were in competition, but they soon realized that if they worked together, they could combine their knowledge and resources and they realized that they worked well