Woodward and Bernstein hit their peak as a reporting, and authorial, duo with this book, which still must be considered the starting point in many ways for study of Watergate.

That said, and having read Woody's later books, and knowing the accusations against him, including of putting unverifiable words on Bill Casey's deathbed lips, I'm glad he had the "tempering hand" of Bernstein with him on this book, a hand he perhaps could have used later, when he became more and more a Beltway courtier to the Bush White House, a story itself perhaps deserving a book-length treatment by the Woodward/Bernstein duo of 35 years ago.


Anyway, back to this book. I think we see a good mix of the investigative skills of both reporters, with Woodward's style getting (I think of a vignette like the description of Nixon serving everybody else less expensive wine than he got, with his bottle wrapped in a white serving cloth) balanced by a more "grounded" angle from Bernstein.

And, speaking of, and to wander back off track again, why can't we get something new from Bernstein? Like a bio of Woodward?