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rembrandt1881's review
4.0
This was a solid book in my opinion. It gave me a good feel of the tenor of the era and the atmosphere around Richard Nixon and the administration while not being totally about the major scandals until the end. It does a good job of laying the groundwork that led to the former Presidents resignation. It also gave some depth to some of the people who work in administration whom the public doesn't get a lot of notice about. Beltway insiders and even news people have connections with executive assistants and the people who work adjacent to the large name movers and shakers but rarely do we get to know anything about what they do and how important they may or may not be to keeping the operation moving smoothly.
heylook's review
2.0
Doesn't add much to the saga of Nixon/Watergate. Seems like the book was written as an excuse to share a few documents about Israel/Palestine and Vietnam, rather for anything insightful Butterfield might have to say.
ilovestory's review
3.0
Interviews with Alex Butterfield, the man who disclosed the Nixon tapes. I had never heard of Butterfield and it turns out he lives near me. It's pretty thin ... he was one of the few who knew about the tapes, he was almost not interviewed so the tapes may have never been disclosed ... but he was and he appears to be a man who holds a grudge, felt he was treated rudely by Nixon the day they first met ... so was that the motivation for the disclosure? It would have been good as a chapter in a more detailed Watergate or Nixon Presidency book but hard to make a full book over just this. Unless you are extremely interested in this particular segment of the story. But of course I love Woodward and the Post are why I majored in Journalism and I can't fault Woodward's writing or digging into the sources.
bhable's review against another edition
informative
fast-paced
4.5
You know, I think this Bob Woodward guy is a pretty good author