From the Publisher
"Forty years after the greatest scandal of the American presidency, Elizabeth Drew's account in Washington Journal remains fresh and riveting, instructive and evocative. Her afterword on Nixon's post-Watergate life is equally compelling." ---Tom Brokaw
Al Hunt - Bloomberg View
Compelling . . . a reminder that American politicians can rise and respond to crises.
Kendall Breitman - Politico
[Washington Journal], originally published in 1975, closely chronicled the events leading up to and following the Watergate scandal. Forty years later, Nixon’s secret plan for career rehab is revealed in Drew’s new afterward, including attempts that Nixon made to stay relevant in the political world.”
Houston Chronicle
A true thriller.
Judy Woodruff - PBS Newshour
A classic of American political journalism . . . Forty years later, it’s every bit as riveting.
Barnes and Noble Review
Full of observations and sensory details that give the word ‘Watergate’ meaning beyond the well-worn symbols of corruption and malaise. . . From the first page, you feel that you are in smoggy, stuffy Washington, watching things get bizarre.
Molly Ball - The Atlantic
Like nothing else I’ve ever read about that period, really shows what it was like to be there.
Joan Didion
A journal so meticulous, so coolly absorbing as to render the year almost reasonable.
Chuck Todd - MSNBC
One of the pioneers of women in journalism.
The Washingtonian
[Drew’s depiction of DC in 1973] bears an uncanny resemblance to the city we’ve come to know since President Donald Trump took office.
The New York Times Books Review
A sober, thorough, and sensitive report.
Tom Brokaw
Forty years after the greatest scandal of the American presidency, Elizabeth Drew’s account in Washington Journal remains fresh and riveting, instructive and evocative. Her afterword on Nixon’s post-Watergate life is equally compelling.”
Anthony Lewis
Elizabeth Drew made me feel again the strong emotions of those extraordinary months in 1974 when Richard Nixon was unmasked—the doubt, the tension, the relief. It was a time in our lives when the Constitution came alive, and she makes us understand how it happened. It is wonderful to be reminded.
The Washington Post
Superb . . . [Drew] has succeeded admirably in coolly, clinically, meticulously recording the way it was. Her work is bound to be indispensable.
John W. Gardner
Of all the books on Watergate, this is the one that will last.
Susan B. Glasser - Politico
A true Washington thriller . . . When it comes to understanding the consequences of Nixon’s reckless White House on America’s political institutions, Drew’s account is simply indispensable . . . Relevant both to Watergate-era D.C. and to the undoubtedly more noxious, and indisputably cruder, politics of Trump’s capital.
Frank Rich - New York Magazine
To understand how the melodrama played out in real time in the capital, there may be no better guide than Washington Journal.”
Jon Meacham
An amazing book that more than stands the test of time.
Ezra Klein
It does something no other Watergate book does: tells the story not as a tidy tale with a clear beginning and inevitable end, but as an experience thick with confusion, rumors, alarm, and half-truths . . . Helpful for trying to understand what it is like to live through a period of great confusion and potentially great import.
Greil Marcus - Rolling Stone
Unquestionably the best book yet on Watergate, and conceivably the best we will ever get.
Politico
[Washington Journal], originally published in 1975, closely chronicled the events leading up to and following the Watergate scandal. Forty years later, Nixon’s secret plan for career rehab is revealed in Drew’s new afterward, including attempts that Nixon made to stay relevant in the political world.”
Ezra Klein - Vox
One of my favorite books about Watergate . . . [Washington Journal] does something no other Watergate book does: tells the story not as a tidy tale with a clear beginning and inevitable end, but as an experience thick with confusion, rumors, alarm, and half-truths.”
