Woodward and Bernstein: Life in the Shadow of Watergate

by Alicia C. Shepard

Overview

Based on new interviews and never-before-seen archival materials, Woodward and Bernstein takes a fresh, thought-provoking look at this unlikely journalistic duo. Thrown together by fate or luck, Woodward and Bernstein changed the face of journalism and the American presidency. For the first time, Shepard separates myth from reality as she traces the lives of the iconic journalists before and after Watergate.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780470362457
Publisher:	Trade Paper Press
Publication date:	05/02/2008
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	288
File size:	858 KB

About the Author

Alicia C. Shepard is a regular contributor to People and the Washingtonian. She teaches journalism at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., and has won three National Press Club awards for her media criticism in the American Journalism Review.

Table of Contents

Preface.

1. The Up and Comers.

2. Trust.

3. The Best Obtainable Version of the Truth.

4. In Demand.

5. The Source to End All Sources.

6. The Double-Edged Sword.

7. When Are You Going to Screw Up?

8. Bernstein Unchaperoned.

9. Mr. Carte Blanche.

10. Loyalties.

11. Piercing the Veil.

12. The Revelation.

Acknowledgments.

Works Cited.

Index.