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Carl Bernstein
“Dysfunction: The State of American Politics and Journalism Today”
In the early 1970s, Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward broke the Watergate story for The Washington Post and set the standard for modern investigative reporting. Their investigations into the scandal that brought down the presidency of Richard Nixon were recounted in two of the biggest selling books of the decade: All the President’s Men (also a movie starring Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman) and The Final Days.
In books, magazine articles, television reporting, and commentary, Bernstein continues to build on the theme he and Woodward first explored in the Nixon years—the use and abuse of all aspects of power. With the recent revelation of informant Deep Throat (W. Mark Felt, the deputy director of the FBI at the time), Bernstein and his style are more important than ever in modern media and reporting.
A reporter dedicated to breaking the big stories, he has set the standard for investigative reporting for more than 30 years, covering decades of change in politics, culture, and the media. As a contributing editor to Vanity Fair, Bernstein continues to cover the news with his customary dedication to the facts, and he is a frequent political commentator on network television.
After winning virtually every prize in journalism, including (with Bob Woodward) the Pulitzer Prize awarded to The Washington Post for its Watergate coverage, Bernstein left the paper in 1977 and continued his career investigating such influential stories as the CIA’s secret relationship with the American press during the Cold War, Israel’s military activity in Lebanon, and the Iraq invasion of Kuwait for various print and televised media. Bernstein’s most recent work is the book A Woman in Charge: The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton.