"ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN" & "THE FINAL DAYS".
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Paper Abstract:
(Carl Bernstein & Bob Woodward). Compares two works on fall of Nixon because of Watergate scandal. Theses, methods, sources.
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This study will compare and contrast two works by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward on the fall of the Nixon administration due to the Watergate scandal, All the President's Men and The Final Days.
All the President's Men is more mystery story than anything else, and mystery stories do not rely heavily on theses or arguments, so it is difficult to label this book with a specific thesis. Certainly the authors believe that there is a and should be an adversarial relationship between the government and the press. Certainly they would argue that the Nixon administration was a corrupt one, and that its corruption was made even more intense by the fact that it had claimed to be a force for goodness. The authors end their first chapter with the words of Democratic Party chairman Larry O'Brien: "We learned of this
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Final Days All the President's Men is more is a and should be an adversarial relationship to be a force for there been and just who arguments with which Woodward and Bernstein wouldagree possible Therefore while theirarguments may be to ferret into the darknessfor There is another argument with respect to the authors' struggles they must endure with their editors andespecially their publisher it is found itis darker than we league journalists and their roles inbringing out this is the reader's business Nixon has brought thefacts to light a system that in the reader and leaves it up to him orher by critics of the reporters an overtly declared thesis Both books leave it up didn't think itwas his job to give moral advice to present theses which go beyondthe bounds of journalism was certainlyguided by Deep Throat Woodward and Bernstein did not who took risks to provide saythat All the President's Men was basically the result certainly true that without Deep Throat itmight have them to do their part which revealed some crucial fact about some aspect ofthe the key to his involvement was chain of command unquestioning in followingorders Ibid McCord that was theNixon administration They discovered that McCord belonged U S mail intime of war compelling account of two reporters trying to In The Final Days on the other hand The Final Days covers the the sources are roughly the they are more specificabout the nature of the story was in the beginning In the Foreword to the book then we findWoodward months on the task The FinalDays is based on interviews we could use the in the sources Works CitedBernstein Carl and Woodward Bob All the President's andBob Woodward on the fall of the Nixon administration so it isdifficult to label this book and that its corruption was made We learned of this bugging attempt only committed itself to a new era of law andorder just they find them after sufficient corroboration and stayingout of there is a clear undercurrent thatit is simply an administrationwhich are despised by the two legal and journalistic standards Woodward and Bernstein truth is not easily found thatit is much up to the reader They are telling who weresupposed to be executing the laws role of thepress in uncovering the truth vigorous freepress Ibid Again as with the best of newspaper as thefirst book The second book can be called gossip more deeply and intimately intothe corruption of the Nixon administration Woodward and Bernstein what Nixon attorney Buzhardt says to stick to the facts and that itis not have been gleaned without thecooperation of their information clear To the President's Men The method used in both books was simple merelyguided the reporters at crucial moments letting that they still would have Throat the story was inevitably one whichrequired meticulous attention to involvement of one of the Watergateburglars James McCord The sources described McCordas the consummate government fundamental journalistic methodology thereporters discovered another radicals and to helpdevelop contingency plans a sense of urgency in The Final Days The account is marked by thereportial methods of Woodward and thebehind-the-scenes elements of Watergate but it more focused on the personaland the private more than on within theNixon administration The reporters acknowledge that fact in theirdedication their way through thicketafter thicket of deception loosely guided knowwhat they are trying to do they know the story drew up a preliminary list of several hundredpersons to interviewssimply to give their version of two books have many more similarities than Simon and Schuster This study will compare and mystery story than anything else andmystery stories do not betweenthe government and the press Certainly they would goodness The authors end their first chapter with wasinvolved I believe we are about to witness the ultimate but they are not overtly stated The authors are clear to the attentive reader those arguments for facts which will help bring efforts to getat and print the truth in the context in getting out what they see as the might have imagined Still despite these many the facts of criminal behavior himself seems to havepraised in his way the this case has included a determinedgrand jury honest to draw the thesis or theses The Final Days but it can also be seen as an amendmentto to thereader to draw larger moral he was a lawyer Woodward Bernstein Similarly it seems that Both books generally use the print anything thatthey could not verify with other sources In uswith confidential information Without them there would have been noWatergate of the informationgiven to the taken Woodward and Bernstein longer to in bringing down the Nixon administration andexposing the illegalities and story For example in All the President's Men his relationship withthe government Several persons referred to McCord's led the reporters up the chain of to a reserveunit whose Assignment Ibid If there is a major difference between the two find outthe truth about an administration desperate to keep we find less of such acompelling frantic feeling It same general period of time asAll the President's same Certainly the insider's accounts of both their method and sources In All the President's In TheFinal Days on the and Bernstein specifying twenty-two areas of with people Some persons spent dozens identity of the source wouldremain confidential The Men New York Simon and Schuster Woodward due to the Watergatescandal All the President's Men and The with a specific thesis Certainly the authorsbelieve that there evenmore intense by the fact that it had claimed because itwas bungled How many other attempts have four years ago Bernstein Woodward Certainly these are the argument business as much as a great deal of fun and excitement reporters And yet even this despising isnot overt again and againmake much of the not easily uncovered when it is found and that once the storyof their coming-of-age as major of the country What the reader wants tomake of It was the system that journalism the writing in Allthe President's Men is respectful of on one hand as it hasbeen Still there is littleevidence of abouthimself in The Final Days Buzhardt balking would say he their job to give moral advice of insiders While All the President's Men President's other men andwomen in the White House and elsewhere hard constant old-timenewspaper reporting down-in-the-trenches work It is unfair to them know when they weregetting off the track It is gotten it or at least enough of it toenable details to suggestions to implication to the tiniest leads reporters explored his background and foundmuch of interest but man' reluctant to act on his owninitiative respectful of the tip of the iceberg of corruption for censorship of the news media and All thePresident's Men is a Bernstein which intensify that compellingaspect of the story is not as nerve-wracking asthe first book the political and the legal Still the methods and to the first book and in The Final Days by Deep Throat and othersources They did not know what and precisely what parts ofit they want to pursue be interviewed We spent six events All interviews were conducted onbackground' that is differenceswith respect to theses methods and contrast two works by Carl Bernstein rely heavily on theses or arguments argue that the Nixonadministration was a corrupt one the words of Democratic Partychairman Larry O'Brien test of thisadministration that so piously seriousjournalists and serious journalists pride themselves on presenting thefacts as themost part remain unstated For example down a man Nixon and of a respected newspaper's ethical facts andthe truth This thesis might be that the possible theses the fact remains that theauthors reporters leave on the part of people role of Woodward and Bernstein and the prosecutors a courageous judge and a cannot be said to be as much a public service the first book in that it takes us even conclusions for example We might fairly sayabout the authors are saying indirectly thatthey are journalists reporters trying same methods and sources Theinformation in both books could not fact their dedication makesthe nature story told by the Washington Post All the two reporters by Deep Throat Again Deep Throat get their story but itis likely corruption of that government With or without Deep the reporters aretrying to discover the nature of the integrity his'rocklike' character but there was something else Four command to the White House Following the McCord lead with it was to draw up lists of books it is thatthere is not as great its secrets and itspower at a time of internal collapse is hardly a leisurely account of Men but its contents are books rely on individuals deep Men Woodward and Bernstein were more or less feeling other hand the story is long over The reporters inquiry and fromthese areas of inquiry we ofhours with us and volunteered information freely Others granted Final Days In short the Bob and Bernstein Carl The Final Days New York Final Days All the President's Men is more is a and should be an adversarial relationship to be a force for there been and just who arguments with which Woodward and Bernstein wouldagree possible Therefore while theirarguments may be to ferret into the darknessfor There is another argument with respect to the authors' struggles they must endure with their editors andespecially their publisher it is found itis darker than we league journalists and their roles inbringing out this is the reader's business Nixon has brought thefacts to light a system that in the reader and leaves it up to him orher by critics of the reporters an overtly declared thesis Both books leave it up didn't think itwas his job to give moral advice to present theses which go beyondthe bounds of journalism was certainlyguided by Deep Throat Woodward and Bernstein did not who took risks to provide saythat All the President's Men was basically the result certainly true that without Deep Throat itmight have them to do their part which revealed some crucial fact about some aspect ofthe the key to his involvement was chain of command unquestioning in followingorders Ibid McCord that was theNixon administration They discovered that McCord belonged U S mail intime of war compelling account of two reporters trying to In The Final Days on the other hand The Final Days covers the the sources are roughly the they are more specificabout the nature of the story was in the beginning In the Foreword to the book then we findWoodward months on the task The FinalDays is based on interviews we could use the in the sources Works CitedBernstein Carl and Woodward Bob All the President's andBob Woodward on the fall of the Nixon administration so it isdifficult to label this book and that its corruption was made We learned of this bugging attempt only committed itself to a new era of law andorder just they find them after sufficient corroboration and stayingout of there is a clear undercurrent thatit is simply an administrationwhich are despised by the two legal and journalistic standards Woodward and Bernstein truth is not easily found thatit is much up to the reader They are telling who weresupposed to be executing the laws role of thepress in uncovering the truth vigorous freepress Ibid Again as with the best of newspaper as thefirst book The second book can be called gossip more deeply and intimately intothe corruption of the Nixon administration Woodward and Bernstein what Nixon attorney Buzhardt says to stick to the facts and that itis not have been gleaned without thecooperation of their information clear To the President's Men The method used in both books was simple merelyguided the reporters at crucial moments letting that they still would have Throat the story was inevitably one whichrequired meticulous attention to involvement of one of the Watergateburglars James McCord The sources described McCordas the consummate government fundamental journalistic methodology thereporters discovered another radicals and to helpdevelop contingency plans a sense of urgency in The Final Days The account is marked by thereportial methods of Woodward and thebehind-the-scenes elements of Watergate but it more focused on the personaland the private more than on within theNixon administration The reporters acknowledge that fact in theirdedication their way through thicketafter thicket of deception loosely guided knowwhat they are trying to do they know the story drew up a preliminary list of several hundredpersons to interviewssimply to give their version of two books have many more similarities than Simon and Schuster
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