Hearing James McCord whisper CIA in court
Woodward recounts sitting in court when the judge asked burglar James McCord where he worked, and McCord kept whispering until finally admitting he worked for the CIA.
Bob Woodward
American
Born 1943
Robert Upshur Woodward is an American investigative journalist. He started working for The Washington Post as a reporter in 1971 and now holds the honorific title of associate editor there, though the Post no longer employs him.
On LuvemBooks, we've reviewed 2 of Bob Woodward's books, including The Final Days and All the President's Men.
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Books ReviewedIn Bob Woodward's own words
Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein reflect on investigating Watergate, writing 'All the President's Men,' and working with Deep Throat in an interview with CBS Sunday Morning.
Uploaded by CBS Sunday Morning, 2014 · Watch on YouTube ·
Interviewing Hugh Sloan and his wife
Woodward recalls interviewing Nixon campaign treasurer Hugh Sloan, whose troubled conscience prompted him to keep answering questions rather than turn the reporters away.
Regret over intentionally burning a source
Woodward describes the fallout from misreporting H.R. Haldeman's grand jury testimony as a low point where desperate reporters wrongly blew an FBI source's cover to his superior.
Acknowledging Deep Throat in his book
Woodward explains that despite original ground rules never to acknowledge Deep Throat's existence, they included him in the book to lay out the complete truth.
Journalism's shift away from investigative patience
Woodward states that journalism has fallen well past its golden age because internet culture demands speed and impatience, preventing reporters from digging deeply into stories.
Bob Woodward books in order
27 books; 2 reviewed on LuvemBooks. Dates and covers from Amazon.
1974Our review →
1976Our review →
1979The Brethren: Inside the Supreme CourtAmazon ↗
1984WiredAmazon ↗
1987VeilAmazon ↗
1987Veil the Secret Wars of the Cia 1981 198Amazon ↗
1991The CommandersAmazon ↗
1992The Man Who Would be President: Dan QuayleAmazon ↗
1994The AgendaAmazon ↗
1999ShadowAmazon ↗
2000MaestroAmazon ↗
2002Bush at WarAmazon ↗
2004Plan of AttackAmazon ↗
2005The Secret ManAmazon ↗
2005The Choice: How Bill Clinton WonAmazon ↗
2006State of DenialAmazon ↗
2008The War WithinAmazon ↗
2010Obama's WarsAmazon ↗
2012The Price of PoliticsAmazon ↗
2015The Last of the President's MenAmazon ↗
2018FearAmazon ↗
2020RageAmazon ↗
2021PerilAmazon ↗
2021The Justices Behind Roe v. WadeAmazon ↗
2022The Trump TapesAmazon ↗
The Final Days
4.6/5
reader rating · 1,096 ratingsThe Final Days is a 1976 non-fiction book by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein — the Pulitzer Prize–winning duo behind All the President's Men — chronicling Richard Nixon's last months in the White House, from the departure of Haldeman and Ehrlichman through Nixon's August 9, 1974 resignation. Newsweek called it "an extraordinary work of reportage on the epic political story of our time," and its New York Times bestseller status confirmed its cultural reach, though its anonymous-sourcing methodology drew pointed scrutiny from the start.
Reviewed Aug 18, 2026
All the President's Men
4.5/5
reader rating · 1,141 ratingsFirst published in 1974, All the President's Men is the definitive non-fiction account of how two Washington Post reporters, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, unraveled the Watergate scandal — a story that reached from a June 1972 break-in at the Watergate Office Building all the way to the upper echelons of the Nixon White House. Gene Roberts, former executive editor of The Philadelphia Inquirer and former managing editor, has called their reporting "maybe the single greatest reporting effort of all time," and the book that captures it remains one of the most important works of American journalism ever committed to print.
Reviewed Mar 19, 2026
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