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Book SynopsisIt began with a break-in at the
Democratic National Committee headquarters in Washington DC, on
17 June 1972. Bob Woodward, a journalist for the
Washington Post, was called into the office on a Saturday morning to cover the story.
Carl Bernstein, a political reporter on the Post, was also assigned. They soon learned this was no ordinary burglary. Following lead after lead, Woodward and Bernstein picked up a trail of money, conspiracy and high-level pressure that ultimately led to the doors of the
Oval Office. Men very close to the
President were implicated, and then
Richard Nixon himself. Over a period of months, Woodward met secretly with Deep Throat, for decades the most famous anonymous source in the history of journalism. As he and Bernstein pieced the jigsaw together, they produced a series of explosive stories that would not only win the
Post a Pulitzer Prize, they would bring about the President's scandalous down
