{"id":1519,"date":"2006-12-12T08:19:24","date_gmt":"2006-12-12T16:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2006\/12\/deep_woodstein\/"},"modified":"2006-12-12T08:19:24","modified_gmt":"2006-12-12T16:19:24","slug":"deep_woodstein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2006\/12\/deep_woodstein.html","title":{"rendered":"Deep Woodstein"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do we really need a book about the impact of Watergate on the lives and careers of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein? We already know what happened to them. Woodward went on to write a shelfload of best sellers about the government, told from the inside, and Bernstein joined the glitterati.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/media.wiley.com\/product_data\/excerpt\/15\/04717376\/0471737615.pdf\" class=inline target=new\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt title=\"Woodward and Bernstein: Life in the Shadow of Watergate [John Wiley and Sons, Inc.]\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/woodstein%20book%20cover.jpg\" width=180 align=left border=0\/><\/a>Well, Virginia, that&#8217;s not the whole story. Alicia C. Shepard&#8217;s new book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/0471737615?tag=woodwardandbe-20&#038;camp=14573&#038;creative=327641&#038;linkCode=as1&#038;creativeASIN=0471737615&#038;adid=1DX57QDE18W3DA11E5EG&#038;\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>&#8220;Woodward and Bernstein: Life in the Shadow of Watergate,&#8221;<\/strong><\/font><\/a> fills in the rest with nuances you probably don&#8217;t know or never considered, and does it with enough thoroughly documented details to slake the curiosity of a news junkie like me.<br \/>\nIs that special pleading? So be it.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/woodwardandbernstein.net\/author.html\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>Shepard<\/strong><\/font><\/a> has scrutinized the pair&#8217;s Watergate papers (bought by the University of Texas for $5 million in 2002).  She has interviewed both guys, their wives and former wives, their editors, their competitors, and plenty of others including Alan Pakula, the Hollywood director who did his own interviews for the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/All_the_President%27s_Men_%28film%29\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>film version<\/strong><\/font><\/a> of the Woodstein book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/All-Presidents-Men-Bob-Woodward\/dp\/1416522913\/sr=1-2\/qid=1165936216\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2\/102-0100347-5967312?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>&#8220;All the President&#8217;s Men.&#8221;<\/strong><\/font><\/a><br \/>\nAll in all, Shepard has put in a prodigious amount of work. Yet &#8220;Woodward and Bernstein&#8221; is a swift read, its lackluster prose notwithstanding. Which left me feeling grateful &#8212; even surprised &#8212; given the sense I must admit having of a magazine feature padded out to textbook length for journalism courses.<br \/>\nBesides, who can resist the opening bars of the &#8220;Dance of the Knights&#8221; from Prokofiev&#8217;s &#8220;Romeo and Juliet&#8221; in a <a href=\"http:\/\/woodwardandbernstein.net\/index.html\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>book promo<\/strong><\/font><\/a> that riffs on the emblematic scene of the Pakula flick?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do we really need a book about the impact of Watergate on the lives and careers of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein? We already know what happened to them. Woodward went on to write a shelfload of best sellers about the government, told from the inside, and Bernstein joined the glitterati. &#8220;Woodward and Bernstein: Life [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1519","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-ov","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}