Author. Title. Year.

Carl Bernstein and BobWoodward. All the Presidents’ Men. 1974.
Bob Woodward was a clumsy young reporter when he happened upon the story that helped Nixon’s conspiracy unravel. He and Carl Bernstein weren’t exactly friends, and they weren’t exactly liberals. Their work remains a vivid example of the importance of a free press. But for Woodward it was an introduction to power. From unmasking it to helping it with its mask.
Excited by the film Good Night and Good Luck, and news stories fingering Lewis Libby as the one who leaked to the press Valerie Plame’s identity. In this news story we have an example of the tragedy of a not free press, a press that prints what power tells it to print, even if it is illegal, and whose protected deep cover informants are the ones crafting misinformation. And then Bob Woodward started showing up in these news stories
I had started with Wired and, after All The President’s Men, plunged straight into The Last Days, but it was all wrong. With the story of the reporting removed, silhouettes reenact secret conversations. So I picked up Bush at War. And that, finally, made me want to hurl, but I didn’t read the whole thing so I am not allowed to report on it here. But Woodward is clearly not a reporter. According to Mother Jones' Tom Engelhardt: "A reporter who once brought down one corrupt administration now finds himself protecting another..." And the only reporter to be played by Robert Redford.
All the President’s Men is a numbing, but important, and has enough vivid details to make in readable. Eat your vegetables, endure your freedom, read All the President’s Men. But remember that even Michael Moore is a better journalist than Bob Woodward.