The Original Watergate Stories (Kindle Single) (The Washington Post Book 1)
by The Washington Post
View on GoodreadsA Kindle Single compilation of the original Washington Post Watergate stories — the Woodward-Bernstein bylines as they ran in the paper between June 1972 and the Nixon resignation in August 1974, preserved as published rather than retold.
Core ideas
- The stories' chronological progression is the document's value — what was known and reported when, in real time, before the historical settling-out that All the President's Men and subsequent books did from the other side of resolution.
- The methodical accumulation pattern is more visible in this format than in any subsequent retelling — most days produced incremental additions to the slowly-building case, not the dramatic revelations the cultural memory has consolidated around.
- The compilation pairs naturally with All the President's Men (the inside-the-newsroom retrospective) and The Last of the President's Men (the Butterfield primary-source retrospective) — three angles on the same story.
Published2012
Pages202
ISBN9781938120589
ReadJun 2022
