“Richard Nixon's resignation as President of the United States in 1974 marked the first time in American history that a president had fallen from power in mid-term. Two of the chief figures behind this momentous event were unlikely agents of cataclysm. No powerful manipulators or shadowy conspirators, Robert Woodward and Carl Bernstein. They were newspaper reporters, just doing their job....”
“Their success gave America a new kind of knight in shining armor... They’ve revived the tradition of the first great American muckrakers, the small band of writers who exposed government corruption, corporate villainy, and wretched conditions in industry shortly after the turn of the century...”
“Woodward and Bernstein, and perhaps Seymour Hersh and Jack Anderson, may be the visible heroes, but dozens of other investigative journalists have been probing and exposing wrongdoing and abuse of power across the United States with equal skill and perseverance... This book tells about many of them, and the contributions the have made.”