![]() ![]() Woodward and his researcher recorded 46 hours of interviews with Butterfield between 20, the year he turned 89. In so doing, Butterfield was the cameo player who dealt the deathblow to the Nixon presidency. Butterfield, the White House staffer who oversaw the installation and operation of President Nixon’s secret taping system and who, in July 1973, disclosed the system’s existence to Senate Watergate committee investigators. The book presents a profile of Alexander P. The Last of the President’s Men 1 attempts, transparently, to cement Woodward’s special status in American journalism and thereby makes for a curious entry in his canon: one of the shortest, yet the most scholarly, of his works, an important contribution to the literature of the Nixon era that is nonetheless fatally flawed by the classic Woodward sins of omission and avoidance. And it would give him an opportunity to come clean about the less than savory parts of that story, which have attracted growing attention from Woodward’s peers in journalism and the more dispassionate precincts of academia. In such a work, the famously slow-talking Midwesterner could relate, with clarity unattainable from thousands of cagey TV interviews, the inside story of how this former naval intelligence officer achieved his unique stature in journalism and publishing. Yet it also underscores the need for him to get cracking on the last Bob Woodward book our times still demand: a candid autobiography. His latest book, The Last of the President’s Men, is his fifth about Watergate and in some ways his best. T 73, Bob Woodward-the Pulitzer Prize–winning sleuth of Watergate legend and America’s premier nonfiction author, with 17 bestsellers to his name-is nearing the end of one of the most celebrated careers of the media age.
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