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Shadow by Bob Woodward

- Abstract

In the beginning was All the President’s Men (1974). It would be difficult to overestimate the impact of that monumentally best-selling account of the role played by the Washington Post in uncovering the Watergate conspiracy.



About the Author

James Nuechterlein, a former professor of American studies and political thought at Valparaiso University, is a senior fellow of the Institute on Religion and Public Life.