The President's Men

 

I've mentioned around here before that the novel I am working on uses Watergate as a backdrop (or I think I have).

Now, I have seen the movie All the President's Men so many times that I can almost recite the dialogue along with Redford and Hoffman. But I have never, until recently, read the book. It's a damn fine read. What interests me is the third person telling of Woodward and Bernstein. I have to keep reminding myself that not only are they characters in the story, but they wrote it, and on top of that, it all happened. I can see why they got the Pulitzer - though, that was for their newspaper articles. At times, the book doesn't seem that well written, but it is gripping. Well, gripping for someone obsessed enough with Watergate to make it part of a novel, anyway.

I delight in reading all those names again, Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Liddy, Porter, Magruder, Dean, and on and on - they've have become buzzwords in my brain to a fascinating era of corruption and the underbelly of politics.

I think I need to watch that movie one more time. 

Comments

[Kay]

I just tagged you, details on my blog!

[craig]

Hey thanks Kay - I love your blog. I'll do some taggin of my own.