![]() ![]() ![]() You will get a press release version of events.” But as Axios’s Jonathan Swan, one of the current masters of Washington intrigue, noted, sources “also lie on background. This week, Woodward told Michael Schmidt of The New York Times that “you won’t get the straight story from someone if you do it on the record. “Deep Throat”-to expose the cover-up behind the Watergate burglary that unraveled Nixon’s presidency. Woodward and Carl Bernstein, his colleague at The Washington Post, used the most famous anonymous source in American history-FBI Associate Director Mark Felt a.k.a. ![]() ![]() In books about presidents from Nixon to Obama, Woodward has employed a similar approach, conducting exhaustive interviews on background and using the information he gathers to write from an omniscient perspective. This sort of reporting isn’t new for Woodward, nor is he its only practitioner. Those scoops, as Woodward writes in his note to readers, come from hundreds of hours of interviews conducted on “deep background,” meaning that the officials with whom Woodward spoke are not named in the text. The hype was good: for more than a week before its debut, Fear dominated the news cycle, as journalists and pundits parsed the revelations within. On its first day on shelves, 750,000 copies were sold. Bob Woodward’s new book, Fear, a devastating portrait of a presidency lurching from crisis to crisis, is a certified blockbuster. ![]()
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