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About Bob Woodward
Bob Woodward came to The Post in 1971. He previously served as a communications officer in the U.S. Navy from 1965 to 1970.
At The Post, Woodward teamed with Carl Bernstein to investigate the 1972 burglary at the Watergate office building. The Post was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1973 for the reporting of the Watergate scandal. Woodward co-authored, with Bernstein, two best-selling books about Nixon and Watergate -- All the President's Men (1974) and The Final Days (1976). Since then he has written a number of other books, including: The Brethren (1979), about the Supreme Court, with Scott Armstrong; Wired (1984), about the comedian John Belushi; Veil (1987), about the CIA; The Commanders (1991), about the Panama and Persian Gulf wars; Bush at War (2002), on the president's 'war on terror'; and Plan of Attack (2004), on the preparations for the war in Iraq. Woodward was promoted to assistant managing editor for the Metro section in 1979. He became assistant managing editor for Investigative News in 1982. Bob Woodward was born in 1943, and grew up in Wheaton, Illinois. He graduated from Yale University in 1965. A collection of his Washington Post reporting is below: |
 Contact Bob Woodward The Washington Post 1150 15th Street, NW Washington, DC 20071 woodwardb@washpost.com CHAT ARCHIVE
Oct. 2006: Bob Woodward was online to answer readers' questions about his latest book. Read the chat transcript.
Excerpts: "State of Denial"
Read excerpts from Bob Woodward's new book, "State of Denial." Day 1: Behind Public Optimism on Iraq, Administration Had Doubts (Oct. 1, 2006). Day 2: Should Rumsfeld Stay? (Oct. 2, 2006). |
