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Product Details
Simon & Schuster, June 2000
Trade Paperback, 608 pages
ISBN-10: 0684852632
ISBN-13: 9780684852638
Description
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
Twenty-five years ago, after Richard Nixon resigned the presidency, Gerald Ford promised a return to normalcy. "My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over," President Ford declared.
But it was not. The Watergate scandal, and the remedies against future abuses of power, would have an enduring impact on presidents and the country. In Shadow, Bob Woodward takes us deep into the administrations of Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush and Clinton to describe how each discovered that the presidency was forever altered. With special emphasis on the human toll, Woodward shows the consequences of the new ethics laws, and the emboldened Congress and media. Powerful investigations increasingly stripped away the privacy and protections once expected by the nation's chief executive.
Shadow is an authoritative, unsettling narrative of the modern, beleaguered presidency.
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Table of ContentsNicholas Lemann The New Yorker Woodward is still a reporting god....Shadow contains vivid details, might-have-beens, and events hitherto unknown.
Peter Rowe The San Diego Union-Tribune Shadow is a master class in political reporting...breathtaking, disturbing, and fun...If you eat up political gossip, this is a gallon of premium ice cream, a tub of hot fudge and a long spoon....Shadow is a damning indictment of government-by-special-prosecutor.
Ann McDaniel Newsweek Captivating....Woodward's revealing book provides the clearest picture to date of how close Clinton came to losing his job -- and his marriage
-- and how isolated the president became as Monica [Lewinsky]'s story unfolded.
Jay Nordlinger National Review But the anecdotes...oh, the anecdotes! Shadow is swimming in them....Shadow is an engrossing work. And no one -- no one
-- but Bob Woodward could have written it.
Mary McGrory The Washington Post Shadow is a meticulously documented chronicle of self-delusion and self-pity. It is like an illuminated manuscript expanding on an old adage, "Honesty is the best policy." It is also riveting reading.
Anthony Lewis The New York Times What drove Kenneth Starr?...As good an answer as any, I think, emerges from Bob Woodward's new book, Shadow.
Paula Dwyer Business Week Woodward is the Energizer Bunny of investigative journalists, still going strong 25 years after forcing Richard M. Nixon from office with revelations about Watergate....Presidential candidates should read this book
-- and consider themselves warned.
Helen Thomas United Press International The chapters on the Clinton administration are poignant and painful for mistakes made and many regrets, for reputations lost and epic disillusionment after working at the White House.
Richard Benedetto USA Today Woodward does an excellent job of laying out how each president, starting with Gerald Ford and extending through Bill Clinton, failed to heed the lessons Nixon learned the hard way....This highly readable book tells a bleak cautionary tale of warning signs not heeded.
M. Charles Bakst The Providence Sunday Journal Investigative journalist Bob Woodward has a new book you should read. And I can think of a couple of guys who absolutely need to read it and take it to heart. They are Texas Gov. George W. Bush and Vice President Al Gore, leading 2000 Republican and Democratic White House candidates.
Alan WolfeThe Washington Post Book WorldWoodward's treatment of Clinton, which takes up half the book, is devastating. His relentless piling up of the details of one mendacious act after another leaves the reader more outraged than any of the efforts by Clinton's conservative opponents to express their own outrage....Woodward remains the indefatigable, and indispensable, national resource he has been since All the President's Men.
Ike SeamonsThe Miami HeraldWoodward has written a superb follow-up to explore what has happened to the presidency since Watergate and to those who have occupied the nation's highest office.
Mike SnyderHouston ChronicleWoodward presents a remarkably detailed account of key moments in each of the five administrations, providing insight into how the presidents and their aides coped with scandals involving their official acts and private conduct....In Shadow, Woodward demonstrates again why he is the nation's premier practitioner of this sort of fly-on-the-wall journalism....He succeeds in constructing a narrative that is consistently readable and often absorbing....In Shadow, Woodward makes a convincing, if dispiriting, case that the days of presidential titans such as Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt are behind us.
Tony Allen-MillsThe Sunday Times (London)Woodward's unrivalled access to White House officials who have moulded American policy since the resignation of Richard Nixon in 1974 is on glittering display in Shadow: Five Presidents and the Legacy of Watergate, an absorbing study of the American weakness for debilitating political scandal....It is a tribute to Woodward's exhaustive research and narrative skill that his story rarely flags.
Paul FanlundWisconsin State JournalA captivating and intimate 25-year journey, from Gerald Ford's fumbling decision making in the pardon of Richard Nixon through Bill Clinton's impeachment.
Rick HarmonThe OregonianA riveting account of the government's investigations into the personal and public lives of Bill and Hillary Clinton....Shadow offers narrative delights from start to finish....Woodward's tour-de-force account transforms events that had come to seem stale, tawdry and embarrassing into fascinating, dramatic and passionate tragedy. Dozens of events and people take shape in small prose masterpieces....The narrative richness of Shadow provides plenty of food for thought on the subject.
Michael RustThe Washington TimesThere is little doubt that the book, particularly the parts dealing with the Clinton administration, will prove essential to any in-depth exploration of Mr. Clinton's presidency and the political culture it came from. The portrait of the president painted by Mr. Woodward is, in its own way, more scathing than the caricature often painted by his slightly unhinged enemies.
Philip SeibThe Dallas Morning NewsHe writes with the flair of the investigative reporter, offering fascinating insider perspectives on high-level shenanigans.
Kevin O'BrienThe Plain Dealer (Cleveland)A thought-provoking and worthwhile book for even a casual student of the modern presidency. It moves quickly, for the most part, and contains a wealth of insight and insider detail.
Jeff GuinnFort Worth Star-TelegramIntriguing...the kind of thick book you still finish in two or three days because you can't put it down.
David TellThe Weekly StandardAs always, the genius interviewer delivers.
Robert DallekThe NationWoodward is a highly effective investigative journalist. These skills are on full display in Shadow....His depiction of the first couple will be part of the first draft of Clinton's presidential history.
Politico, September 20, 2011
...These books,” of course, are a certain genre of deeply reported Washington tell-all whose most famous practitioner is Bob Woodward. For much of his book-writing career, Suskind has operated a bit in Woodward’s shadow the New York Times ...
Foreign Policy Magazine, September 19, 2011
...reporter's reliability, there is no question that four of my former colleagues strongly doubt the reliability of Bob Woodward, the leading practitioner of this journalistic art form. Last week, Woodward wrote an op-ed criticizing Vice ...
CBS News, October 15, 2009
...in the Midst of a Big One--will span thirteen presidential terms and twenty-five Congressional sessions, casting a long shadow over generations of politicians not yet running for office. The Long War assumes either perpetual democratic ...
KIVI-TV, September 21, 2009
...front begins, it turned out the president couldn't control the news cycle through Monday morning after all. Bob Woodward takes those honors: "The top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan warns in an urgent, confidential assessment of the ...
Find Law, September 19, 2009
...trash Harding's reputation, Francis Russell. Indeed, Russell would do his best to do just that in The Shadow of Blooming Grove: Warren G. Harding in His Times. When Russell found the letters, however, it forced the Harding family to take ...
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