All the President's Men

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50th Anniversary Edition—now with a new foreword on what Watergate means today.

“The work that brought down a presidency...perhaps the most influential piece of journalism in history” (Time)—from the #1 New York Times bestselling authors of The Final Days.

The most devastating political detective story of the century: two Washington Post reporters, whose brilliant, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation smashed the Watergate scandal wide open, tell the behind-the-scenes drama the way it really happened.

One of Time magazine’s All-Time 100 Best Nonfiction Books, this is the book that changed America. Published just months before President Nixon’s resignation, All the President’s Men revealed the full scope of the scandal and introduced for the first time the mysterious “Deep Throat.” Beginning with the story of a simple burglary at Democratic headquarters and then continuing through headline after headline, Bernstein and Woodward deliver a riveting firsthand account of their reporting. Their explosive reports won a Pulitzer Prize for The Washington Post, toppled the president, and have since inspired generations of reporters.

All the President’s Men is a riveting detective story, capturing the exhilarating rush of the biggest presidential scandal in US history as it unfolded in real time.
50th Anniversary Edition—now with a new foreword on what Watergate means today. “The work that brought down a presidency...perhaps the most influential piece of journalism in history” (Time)—from the #1 New York Times bestselling authors of The Final Days. The most devastating political detect...

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27 reviews
Sean Payne
December 22, 2025
I'm so sick of the nyt stories. they are evil villains but occasionally accidentally do a good and then throw and endless parade for themselves vomit inducing
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Darren Muse
February 6, 2019
An excellent description of the Watergate-era crimes of Richard Nixon's presidency. Sufficiently apropos to the current Trump administration, where they're being accused of similar crimes. It's easy to get lost in all of the names though, so it's not necessarily an easy read. There were dozens and dozens of people who were involved in the Watergate break-in, the pay off and the cover-up, and 20 people went to jail for this; However, the theme is essential: that President Nixon ordered Haldeman and Ehrlichman to pay the "Plumbers" to break in to the DNC and collect information to undermine the McGovern campaign, and then chose to cover up the event- even trying to force John Dean to become the scapegoat.
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Joe Intili
March 19, 2017
How can this book ever be anything but 5 stars? It details the key initial journalism which brought down a president who was acting not as a king, but head of an organized crime family, and all those who participated. If ever there was a more corrupt and infected presidential administration, then that story hasn't been written yet. But this one was. And this is it.
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About the author

Bob Woodward is an associate editor at The Washington Post, where he has worked for fifty-five years. He has shared in two Pulitzer Prizes, one for his Watergate coverage with Carl Bernstein and the other for coverage of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. He has authored twenty-four bestselling books, sixteen of which have been #1 New York Times bestsellers.

Carl Bernstein is a contributing editor for Vanity Fair magazine and has written for a variety of publications. He is the author of Loyalties: A Son’s Memoir, and has coauthored His Holiness: John Paul II and the History of Our Time with Marco Politi, as well as All the President's Men and The Final Days with Bob Woodward.
Bob Woodward is an associate editor at The Washington Post, where he has worked for fifty-five years. He has shared in two Pulitzer Prizes, one for his Watergate coverage with Carl Bernstein and the other for coverage of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. He has authored twenty-four bestselling books, s...

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