Description
First edition, first printing of All the President’s Men, signed by Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward, and Ben Bradlee.
Octavo, 349pp, [3]. Blue cloth, title stamped in white on spine, blind stamped title on front cover. The first printing, with a full number line on copyright page. Solid text block, dampstain to lower left corner of the title page and first two chapters, faint sunning along top edge of cloth, a very good example. In the publisher’s first state dust jacket, $8.95 on front flap, short closed tear along lower edge of the front panel, bright illustrations.
Signed on the title page by Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein, and Ben Bradlee.
An exceptional association piece from the Watergate scandal.
The Watergate scandal, which led to President Richard Nixon’s resignation in 1974, was uncovered in large part through investigative reporting by The Washington Post journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein. Ben Bradlee, then executive editor of The Washington Post, gave Woodward and Bernstein editorial freedom and institutional backing. He worked closely with managing editor Howard Simons and city editor Barry Sussman to scrutinize and verify the reporters’ findings, pushing for multiple confirmations before publishing controversial details. Bradlee also shielded them from both internal and external pressures, including criticism from the Nixon administration and skepticism from within the newspaper itself.
