Bob Woodward is regarded as one of America’s preeminent investigative reporters and non-fiction authors. He has worked for The Washington Post since 1971 as a reporter, and is currently an associate editor of the Post. While a young reporter for The Washington Post in 1972, Woodward was teamed up with Carl Bernstein; the two did much, but not all, of the original news reporting on the Watergate scandal that led to numerous government investigations and the eventual resignation of President Richard Nixon. Gene Roberts, former managing editor of The New York Times has called the work of Woodward and Bernstein “maybe the single greatest reporting effort of all time.”
Woodward has authored or coauthored 15 non-fiction books in the last 35 years. All 15 have been national bestsellers and 11 of them have been #1 national non-fiction bestsellers — more #1 national non-fiction bestsellers than any contemporary author. He has written multiple #1 national non-fiction bestsellers on a wide range of subjects in each of the four decades he has been active as an author, from 1974 to 2009.
Woodward’s 11 #1 bestsellers include:
-All the President’s Men
-The Final Days
-The Brethren: Inside the Supreme Court
-Wired: The Short Life and Fast Times of John Belushi
-Veil: The Secret Wars of the CIA, 1981-1987
-The Commanders
-The Agenda: Inside the Clinton White House
-Shadow: Five Presidents and the Legacy of Watergate
-Bush at War
-Plan of Attack
-State of Denial
In addition, Woodward has written four other books that were significant bestsellers but not #1 bestsellers:
-The Choice
-Maestro
-The Secret Man
-The War Within: A Secret White House History (2006–2008)
Newsweek Magazine has excerpted six of Woodward’s books in headline-making cover stories, 60 Minutes has done pieces on five of his books and three of his books have been made into movies. He has been a recipient of nearly every other major American journalism award, including the Heywood Broun award (1972), Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative Reporting (1972 and 1986), Sigma Delta Chi Award (1973), George Polk Award (1972), William Allen White Medal (2000), and the Gerald R. Ford Prize for Reporting on the Presidency (2002).
Woodward is frequently asked to address various groups, organizations and lecture series and donates all speaking fees to the Woodward Walsh Foundation, which in turn supports various charities, including Sidwell Friends School.
Born March 26, 1943 in Illinois, Woodward graduated from Yale University in 1965 and served five years as a communications officer in the U.S. Navy before beginning his journalism career at the Montgomery County (Maryland) Sentinel, where he was a reporter for one year before joining The Post.
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