Shadow: Five Presidents and the Legacy of Watergate

ISBN-13: 9780684852638 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 608 str.

Bob Woodward

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A New York Times Notable Book of the Year

Twenty-five years ago, after Richard Nixon resigned the presidency, Gerald Ford promised a return to normalcy. "My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over," President Ford declared.

But it was not. The Watergate scandal, and the remedies against future abuses of power, would have an enduring impact on presidents and the country. In Shadow, Bob Woodward takes us deep into the administrations of Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush and Clinton to describe how each discovered that the presidency was forever altered. With special emphasis on the human toll, Woodward shows the consequences of the new ethics laws, and the emboldened Congress and media. Powerful investigations increasingly stripped away the privacy and protections once expected by the nation's chief executive.

Shadow is an authoritative, unsettling narrative of the modern, beleaguered presidency.

Recenzje

Nicholas Lemann The New Yorker Woodward is still a reporting god.... Shadow contains vivid details, might-have-beens, and events hitherto unknown.

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CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

PART ONE

Gerald Ford: 1974-77

PART TWO

Jimmy Carter: 1977-81

PART THREE

Ronald Reagan: 1981-89

PART FOUR

George Bush: 1989-93

PART FIVE

Bill Clinton: 1993 -

EPILOGUE

NOTES

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INDEX

PHOTO CREDITS

O autorze

Bob Woodward is an associate editor at The Washington Post where he has worked for 49 years and reported on every American president from Nixon to Trump. He has shared in two Pulitzer Prizes, first for the Post's coverage of the Watergate scandal with Carl Bernstein, and second 20 years later as the lead Post reporter for coverage of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.