Andrew Ferguson of the Weekly Standard dissects Woodward: "Inevitably, as the week wore on, there came the sad detumescence, settling in around Excerpt Three or maybe Four, when we realized that the good parts had all been published and only the scraps and crumbs were left. Soon enough the book itself would be here, in piles in the window at Borders, limp as a windsock and giving off the stale odor of old news."
Ferguson again: "It would indeed be a wonderful thing, and Woodward himself would be a national treasure, if he could record the events that interest him with greater precision, and with an eye to their larger psychological or historical or political placement. But he can't. Instead his gift--solitary, as I say, but very large--is for getting people to tell him stuff. This is the reporter's essential talent, and no one has ever had it in such quantity or cultivated it so diligently."
All together a long and odd read, but one that's worth it. I've often felt that Woodward is a "can't see the forest for the trees" sort of fellow, much like Bill O'Reilly. In the body of the post, Freeper Travis McGee weighs in with some predictions.
Bob Woodward: Bibliography & News Mini-Biography (a compilation by aas)
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