All the President's Men by Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein

First 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 of critical coverage, 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