The Secret Man, Bob Woodward
The Secret Man, Bob Woodward
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The Secret Man
The Story of Watergate's Deep Throat

Author: Bob Woodward

Narrator: Boyd Gaines

Unabridged: 5 hr 50 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/06/2005


Synopsis

In Washington, D.C., where little stays secret for long, the identity of Deep Throat -- the mysterious source who helped Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein break open the Watergate scandal in 1972 -- remained hidden for 33 years. Now, Woodward tells the story of his long, complex relationship with W. Mark Felt, the enigmatic former No. 2 man in the Federal Bureau of Investigation who helped end the presidency of Richard Nixon.
The Secret Man chronicles the story in intimate detail, from Woodward's first, chance encounter with Felt in the Nixon White House, to their covert, middle-of-the-night meetings in an underground parking garage, to the aftermath of Watergate and decades beyond, until Felt finally stepped forward at age 91 to unmask himself as Deep Throat.
The Secret Man is an intense 33-year journey, providing a one-of-a-kind study of trust, deception, pressures, alliances, doubts and a lifetime of secrets. Woodward has spent more than three decades asking himself why Mark Felt became Deep Throat. Now the world can see what happened and why, bringing to a close one of the last chapters of Watergate.

About Bob Woodward

Bob Woodward is the author of three consecutive #1 New York Times bestsellers on President Trump—Fear (2018), Rage (2020), and Peril (2021) with Robert Costa—and an audiobook of 20 interviews with Trump. He has authored 22 bestselling books, 15 of which have been #1 New York Times bestsellers, covering every president from Nixon to Biden.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Koven on October 01, 2008

It's so frustrating--Woodward is such a fantastic researcher and such a poor writer. There's a focus that's sorely lacking in most of his books that's present on every page of The Final Days and All the President's Men, both co-authored with Carl Bernstein. Bernstein is featured in a tacked-on coda......more

Goodreads review by Razvan on August 03, 2024

Not among my favorites: - MR. Woodward needs so many pages to tell us something he could resume in no more than five thousand words - I have found no more than a few pieces of valuable information: only names, remorses and non-valuable little facts - the style is dull, so the book is a very difficult o......more

Goodreads review by Lukasz on May 28, 2017

"Why were you Deep Throat? What was your motive? Who are you? Who were you?" Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein's All the President's Men - to me one of the rare books that really deserve to be bestsellers - portrayed the painstaking journalistic and political process that eventually exposed the so-call......more

Goodreads review by Jay on June 19, 2017

Rating - 8.2 A nice 'n' clean synopsis of the Watergate scandal w the ability to identify Deep Throat & Woodward's interactions w Felt; Felt's motivations seem a hybrid of moral code & personal revenge (Gray) The ending is a bit slow as it details Woodward's artificial dilemna towards Felt & general c......more

Goodreads review by William on September 27, 2020

The reason? Still secret! This is a very interesting book, apparently written within ten days in response to the announcement that Mark Felt, his daughter, and lawyer were going to reveal that Mark Felt was “Deep Throat.” The book overviews Woodward’s relationship with Mark Felt: how he came to meet h......more