Carl Bernstein

Born 14 Feb 1944

Carl Milton Bernstein (born February 14, 1944) is an American investigative journalist and author. While a young reporter for The Washington Post in 1972, Bernstein was teamed up with Bob Woodward, and the two did much of the original news reporting on the Watergate scandal

Quotes

“You can't serve the public good without the truth as a bottom line.”
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“We are in the process of creating what deserves to be called the idiot culture. Not an idiot sub-culture, which every society has bubbling beneath the surface and which can provide harmless fun; but the culture itself.”
An A-Z of cultural terms, The Guardian
“Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.”
An A-Z of cultural terms, The Guardian

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Books by Carl Bernstein in order

Books by Carl Bernstein in the order they were published, from All the President's Men (1974) to Chasing History (2022).

If you like Carl Bernstein

Authors readers of Carl Bernstein often like, from our AI-written notes

Bob WoodwardCo-author of the Watergate books and the reporter whose work is most often read alongside Bernstein's.
Seymour HershInvestigative reporter known for national security and political exposés, which appeals to readers of Bernstein's writing on intelligence and power.
David HalberstamAmerican journalist known for narrative history of politics, government and the Vietnam era.
Robert CaroAuthor of long, heavily researched political biographies, for readers who like Bernstein's biographical work.
Timothy CrouseWrote The Boys on the Bus, an account of the press covering the 1972 presidential campaign, which covers the same period from the reporters' side.
Ben BradleeExecutive editor of The Washington Post during Watergate, whose memoir describes the newsroom where Bernstein worked.