All the President's Men

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• hcrisp · Aug 26, 2022 · Recommends

  Style and subject: Ghost in the Wires, Kevin Mitnick Subject: Worm, Mark Bowden Countdown to Zero Day, Kim Zetter Style: The Soul of a New Machine, Tracy Kidder All the President's Men, Woodward & Bernstein

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• Cosi1125 · Mar 8, 2025 · Recommends

  …is really dark. Also, The Monstrous Regiment. But the books I love the most are the ones with an "Alistair MacLean vibe" to them: Thud! (MacLean's Fear is the Key) and The Truth (Discworld version of All the President's Men?).

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• DonaldFoss · Dec 12, 2016 · Mentions

  …like P. T. Barnum is running much of today's media outlets. Sensationalism combined with instant gratification gets more views = more ad revenue. "Always follow the money." as told to Bob Woodward in _All The President's Men_.

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• cfmcdonald · Feb 8, 2019 · Mentions

  …Whether the particular books you refer to are false negatives on these heuristics is of course a matter of opinion. I don't know Woodward and Bernstein's book on constitutional law; their most famous book, All the President's Men, would surely fall under a similar exception to biography/memoir, since it is an account of their own investigation.

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• gota · Dec 18, 2018 · Mentions

  What is your take on "single topic" investigative journalism books? Like "The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks"[0] or Bob Woodward's "All the president's men" I'd love to recommend "Abusado", by brazilian journalist Caco Barcellos, but unfortunately it does not seem to be available in English [0](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Immortal_Life_of_Henriet...)

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