All the President's Men
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| All the President's Men | |
 The cover of the 1974 first edition. |
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| Author | Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward |
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| Country | USA |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Simon & Schuster |
| Publication date | 1974 |
| Media type | Hardback |
| Pages | 349 |
| ISBN | ISBN 9780671217815 (first edition) |
All the President's Men is a 1974 non-fiction book by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, two of the journalists investigating the Watergate first break-in and ensuing Watergate scandal for The Washington Post. A film adaptation, starring Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman as Woodward and Bernstein, respectively, was released in 1976.
Woodward and Bernstein had toyed with the idea of writing a book about their investigative reporting into Watergate, but didn't commit until actor Robert Redford contacted them and expressed interest in purchasing the film rights. Redford, playing Woodward, went on to produce a movie version with director Alan J. Pakula.
The book chronicles the investigative reporting of Woodward and Bernstein from Woodward's initial report on the Watergate break-in through the resignations of H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman, and the revelation of the Nixon tapes by Alexander Butterfield in 1973. It relates the events behind the major stories the duo wrote for the Post, naming some sources who had previously refused to be identified for their initial articles, notably Hugh Sloan. It also gives detailed accounts of Woodward's secret meetings with his source Deep Throat whose identity was kept secret for over 30 years. Only in 2005 was Deep Throat revealed to be then-FBI Associate Director W. Mark Felt.
The name of the book alludes to the nursery rhyme about Humpty Dumpty ("All the king's horses and all the king's men / Couldn't put Humpty together again"), alluding to Nixon's dominating personalty and the difficulty of repairing political fiascos. The title is similar to that of the Robert Penn Warren novel "All the King's Men," which describes the career of a fictional governor based on Huey Long, who, like Nixon, was accused of running a dictatorial governmental system. The book was the second best-selling non-fiction book of 1974.
Following the success of All the President's Men, Woodward and Bernstein wrote something of a sequel, The Final Days, chronicling the last months of Nixon's Presidency, starting around the time that their previous book ended.
[edit] Cast of characters
The President Of The United States
The President's Men
- Alfred C. Baldwin III
- Alexander P. Butterfield
- John J. Caulfield
- Dwight L. Chapin
- Ken W. Clawson
- Charles W. Colson
- Kenneth H. Dahlberg
- John W. Dean III
- John D. Ehrlichman
- L. Patrick Gray III
- H.R. Haldeman
- E. Howard Hunt, Jr.
- Herbert W. Kalmbach
- Henry A. Kissinger
- Richard G. Kleindienst
- Egil Krogh, Jr.
- Frederick C. LaRue
- G. Gordon Liddy
- Clark MacGregor
- Jeb Stuart Magruder
- Robert C. Mardian
- John N. Mitchell
- Powell Moore
- Robert C. Odle, Jr.
- Kenneth W. Parkinson
- Herbert L. Porter
- Kenneth Rietz
- Donald H. Segretti
- DeVan L. Shumway
- Hugh W. Sloan, Jr.
- Maurice H. Stans
- Gordon Strachan
- Gerald Warren
- David R. Young
- Ronald L. Ziegler
The Burglars
The Prosecution
The Judge
The Washington Post
- Bob Woodward
- Carl Bernstein
- Katharine Graham
- Benjamin C. Bradlee
- Howard Simons
- Harry M. Rosenfeld
- Barry Sussman
The Senator
Deep Throat
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- The Woodward and Bernstein Watergate Papers, an exhibition at the University of Texas at Austin
