Washington Journal, Elizabeth Drew
Washington Journal, Elizabeth Drew
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Washington Journal
Reporting Watergate and Richard Nixon's Downfall

Author: Elizabeth Drew

Narrator: Jo Anna Perrin

Unabridged: 22 hr 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 07/09/2014

Synopsis

Unfolding over the course of a single year, from September 1973 to August 1974, Washington Journal is the record of the near-dissolution of a nation's political conscience—told from within. In this book, we see corruption in its most prosaic and grandest forms, along with occasional flashes of decency, ethics, and humanity, and other sights rarely witnessed in the wilds of the capital.

Cool and understated—and all the more devastating for its understatement—Washington Journal was hailed upon its publication as a landmark work of journalism. With an introduction that brings this all too relevant book squarely into the present, Washington Journal is ready for its place in the pantheon of great writing about American politics.

About Elizabeth Drew

Elizabeth Drew is a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books and the former Washington correspondent of The New Yorker and The Atlantic. She is the author of fourteen books, including The Corruption of American Politics, Richard M. Nixon, and Citizen McCain. Elizabeth lives in Washington D.C.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Randy on March 26, 2025

This is the most prescient thing I’ve ever written and I wrote it before the 2016 election cycle. In the last paragraph I identify the danger inherent in our system. That a malignant President could subvert our government. What I got wrong was that I never thought the public would be okay with elect......more

Goodreads review by Jake on July 10, 2019

Elizabeth Drew’s Washington Journal is making me wish I had kept a diary about the Trump era to document these last few years. I often talk about how the Trump Era is the “lol nothing matters” times of nihilism and obstinance. Seems like a lot of that was going on in 1973-1974. Drew covers the last y......more

Goodreads review by Sherry on September 03, 2017

This is an astonishingly relevant book. Whether you read it for a peek inside the political process, or for the whodunit quality, or for the Constitutional scholarship, you will leave well-informed. I recommend reading the afterward from the 2014 re-publication as well, in which Drew adds Nixon's hi......more

Goodreads review by Marc on June 22, 2017

As we are now dealing with a Nixonian Trump presidency I've decided to read Drew's account of the Watergate coverage in 73-74'. It's really interesting to read what Republicans in the judiciary committee had to say about Nixon as he battled the congress and the Supreme Court to keep his tape or barg......more

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