The Reading Room

Living author

Bob Woodward

1943-

The reporter who, with Carl Bernstein, broke Watergate for the Washington Post, and who has chronicled nine presidencies through deeply sourced books built on documents and on-record interviews. His method is accumulation: get inside the room, then show the reader what was said. The books are durable records of how power was exercised, written close to the events and built to outlast them.

In the library

  • All the President's Men

    Bob Woodward · 1974

    The reporting that brought down a presidency, told by the reporters who did it. Woodward and Bernstein traced the Watergate break-in to the White House through...