C. Vann Woodward’s The Burden of Southern History remains one of the essential history texts of our time. In it Woodward brilliantly addresses the interrelated themes of southern identity, southern distinctiveness, and the strains of irony that characterize much of the South’s historical experience. First published in 1960, the book quickly became a touchstone for generations of students. This updated third edition contains a chapter, “Look Away, Look Away,” in which Woodward finds a plethora...Read Full Story
In Obama’s Wars, Bob Woodward provides the most intimate and sweeping portrait yet of the young president as commander in chief. Drawing on internal memos, classified documents, meeting notes and hundreds of hours of interviews with most of the key players, including the president, Woodward tells the inside story of Obama making the critical decisions on the Afghanistan War, the secret campaign in Pakistan and the worldwide fight against terrorism.At the core of Obama’s Wars is the unsettled...Read Full Story
This article titled “Washington Post scooped by New York Times on Bob Woodward story” was written by Richard Adams in Washington, for guardian.co.uk on Wednesday 22nd September 2010 18.44 UTC
The heavyweight bout between the New York Times and the Washington Post for the title of America’s leading newspaper has just seen the Post take another punch in the kidneys.
To the Post’s immense embarrassment, it has been scooped by its great rival over a book written by one of its own journalists...Read Full Story
Reprinted from Truthout.org with the express permission of of Larry’s longtime friend Mel Goodman, whose biography is at the end of this post, along with a note from Larry about Mel’s views.
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Bob Woodward’s " Obama’s Wars " offers a disturbing account of President Barack Obama’s lack of leadership and the flawed decision-making practices of his national security team. Although Woodward never explicitly says so, he makes a strong case that...Read Full Story
Washington Post (blog) Bob Woodward Potrayal of Obama Pleases White House CBS News The new Bob Woodward book portrays President Obama as hard-nosed and demanding in the process of drafting a new US military strategy in Afghanistan last year. And senior White House officials seem pleased by the portrait. "I think the book portrays a ... Book unearths divisions over Obama war plan The Associated Press Barack Obama's bitter divisions with generals revealed in new book The Guardian Barack Obama...Read Full Story
Mark Mason, author of Walk the Lines ... 1) What are you reading at the moment? Bob Woodward's biography of John Belushi. Yes, that Bob Woodward. Strange choice of subject for the man who brought down Nixon (as Woodward himself admits) - but it's a ...
As NewsBusters previously reported, the gang at Morning Joe were having a field day tearing apart Romney’s admission that he pays about fifteen percent in taxes. “He should have put the tax returns out probably a long time ago,” said ...
You may well have missed it while steeped in eggnog and wrapping paper this past weekend, but Bob Woodward returned to the pages of the Washington Post with a big double-truck piece on Newt Gingrich's revolt against President Bush Senior's ...
Bob Woodward, October 1992: >Primary Heat Turned Deal Into a `Mistake': [George H.W. BushBudget Director Richard] Darman, [Treasury Secretary Nicholas] Brady and [White House Chief of Staff] Sununu met with five congressional leaders to produce an accord that would avert a government shutdown…. The White House team was pleased with the last-minute agreement… no income tax rate increase, the measure that the administration most wanted to avoid...
Ever since Newt Gingrich capitalized on the episodic collapses of his fellow rivals for the GOP nomination to briefly rise into contention as the Not-Romney candidate du jour, George Will has been using his syndicated column as a one-man war blog against the former House speaker, warning that Gingrich is a dangerous, bomb-throwing egomaniac who doesn't care what parts of the conservative movement are damaged by his pyromaniacal tendencies. At...
We have a comment from someone, who may be Bob Woodward, saying that Darman's and Weber's views of Newt Gingrich were not newsworthy in 1992--never mind that he was then the House Minority Whip: >Brad DeLong: Bob Woodward Tells Us Now What He Knew About Newt Gingrich Two Decades Ago: There you go again. For an academic, you repeatedly avoid or overlook facts. You rightly set the standard when you say a journalist should inform "the American...
Woodward and John Woodward; and his sister, Irene Dixon. Survivors include his son, Bob Woodward of Bainbridge; his daughters, Alice W. Zorn and her husband, Neal, and Tina W. Morrison and her husband, Steve, of Bainbridge; his sisters ...
When journalist Carl Bernstein heard the news on the radio, he called Bob Woodward, the Washington Post colleague with whom he had broken the Watergate story. “You’re not gonna believe it,” Bernstein told Woodward. “The son of a bitch pardoned the ...
Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein transported the audience 40 ... Eventually, the trail led to John Mitchell, former attorney general and chairman of Nixon’s re-election campaign. Evidence suggested that he was one of the people in charge of a secret ...
He was a retired pulpwood dealer and a member of Morningside Baptist Church. Survivors include his son, Bob Woodward of Bainbridge, GA; his daughters, Alice W. Zorn and her husband, Neal and Tina W. Morrison and her husband, Steve, of Bainbridge ...
A community portal about Bob Woodward with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Robert Upshur "Bob" Woodward is assistant managing editor of The Washington Post. While an investigative reporter for that newspaper, Woodward, working with his co-employee Carl Bernstein helped uncover the Watergate scandal that led to President...more
A community portal about Bob Woodward with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Robert Upshur "Bob" Woodward is assistant managing editor of The Washington Post. While an investigative reporter for that newspaper, Woodward, working with his co-employee Carl Bernstein helped uncover the Watergate scandal that led to President Richard Nixon's resignation. Woodward has written twelve best-selling non-fiction books and has twice contributed reporting to efforts that collectively earned the Post and its National Reporting staff a Pulitzer Prize.