Bob Woodward

This article is about the American journalist Robert Woodward. For the chemist and Nobel Prize winner of the same name, see Robert B. Woodward , for the astronomer, geodesist and engineer see Robert Simpson Woodward .

Bob Woodward (2016)

Robert Upshur "Bob" Woodward (born March 26, 1943 in Geneva , Illinois ) is an American journalist . He and Carl Bernstein uncovered the background to the Watergate affair as a reporter for the Washington Post .

Life

Woodward graduated from Yale University and served in the US Navy from 1965 to 1970 . He is now the Assistant Managing Editor of the Washington Post . As a reporter for the US capital newspaper, he and Bernstein uncovered the background to the Watergate affair and got help from a secret informant named Deep Throat , who was a member of the FBI. His identity was revealed on May 31, 2005: Mark Felt , then the second highest man in the FBI . From that time on, Woodward was long considered a star reporter and one of the most sought-after journalists in the United States. Since his positive engagement for George W. Bush after September 11, 2001 , he has also been valued more and more by the conservatives. With his book State of Denial , published in October 2006 , Woodward distanced himself from President Bush and painted a much more negative picture of his abilities and his administration.

Woodward's reputation suffered in November 2005 when, in an interrogation by special investigator Patrick Fitzgerald in charge of the Plame affair, he had to admit that he had long known the indiscretions of government officials that had led to the disclosure of Valerie Plame's identity . The Washington Post described this crime as " a deeply serious sin ."

The Watergate Affair was filmed in The Untouchables in 1976, starring Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman .

In September 2018 his book Fear: Trump in the White House was published , which gives insights into the White House and paints a gloomy picture of the administration of President Donald Trump .

Works

• Fear: Trump in the White House . Simon & Schuster, New York 2018, ISBN 978-1471181306 .
  • German fear: Trump in the White House . Rowohlt, Reinbek 2018, ISBN 978-3-498-07408-1 .
• Obama's Wars . Simon & Schuster, New York 2010. ISBN 978-1-4391-7249-0 .
• The War Within: A Secret White House History (2006-2008) . Simon & Schuster, New York 2008. ISBN 978-1-4165-5897-2 .
• The power of repression. George W. Bush, the White House and Iraq . Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-421-04304-7 .
• The informant. Deep Throat, the secret source of the Watergate revealers . Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-421-05928-4 .
• The attack - Plan of Attack . Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-421-05787-7 .
• Bush at War . Simon & Schuster, New York 2003, ISBN 0-7432-4461-3 (English)

dt. Bush at War - America at war . German by Peter Torberg , Friedrich Griese, Klaus Kochmann. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-421-05698-6 .

• Greenspan - conductor of the world economy. Europa Verlag, Hamburg 2001, ISBN 3-203-77675-8 .
• Secret code Veil. Reagan and the CIA's Secret Wars . Droemer Knaur, Munich 1987, ISBN 3-426-26340-8 .
• Overdose . (Biography about John Belushi ). Hannibal-Verlag, Vienna 1986, ISBN 3-85445-026-5 .
• together with Carl Bernstein : American nightmare. The inglorious end of the Nixon era . European Publishing House, Cologne 1976, ISBN 3-434-00227-8 .
• together with Carl Bernstein : The Watergate Affair . Droemer Knaur, Munich, Zurich 1974, ISBN 3-426-00362-7 .

literature

• Georg Mascolo, Gerhard Spörl: Legend Bob Woodward - "I'm just a reporter". In: Der Spiegel , October 7, 2006
• Interview: Bob Woodward on President Bush and his book "State of Denial" . In: Der Spiegel , 41/2006

Web links

• Literature by and about Bob Woodward in the catalog of the German National Library
• Washington Post: The Watergate Story (A special on the affair)
• Konrad Ege, A Man Without a Doubt - Worshiping Strategy. Bob Woodward visits the war heroes at the White House ( Friday , January 17, 2003 - Commentary and Review on "Bush at War" )
• Jordan Mejias, America's success reporter - Bob Woodward speaks to everyone ( FAZ , May 21, 2004)
• Bob Woodward: Plan of Attack - The Road to War. Reviewed by Michael Groth (DeutschlandRadio Berlin, May 21, 2004. Also available as an audio file )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff: George in Phantasialand . In: Die Zeit , October 5, 2006, No. 41
2. ↑ Bob Woodward's Fall , article from November 21, 2005 on Spiegel Online
3. ^ AFP: A presidency in a nervous breakdown. In: FAZ.net . September 5, 2018, accessed October 13, 2018 . 
4. ↑ zeit.de: New disclosure book accuses Donald Trump of incompetence