READING: Woodward & Bernstein, The Final Days

Bob Woodward & Carl Bernstein
The Final Days
1976

Day by day account of the last days of the Nixon regime, brought down in part by the authors' Washington Post reports.
Less breathless and immediate than All The President's Men, which was written in the white hot heat of Watergate, this is more of a dry historical account.
The reversal of writing credits from its predecessor (ATPM was credited to Bernstein & Woodward) suggests Woodward did most of the legwork while cultivating the Washington contacts that would keep him in print for the next three decades, while the more impetuous Bernstein was busy eating out on his new found fame.
This book is less Nixon: My Part In His Downfall and more The History of the Decline and Fall of the Nixon Empire.