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Author:
Carl Bernstein
Publisher:
Henry Holt and Co.
Date:
January 11, 2022
The Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter who helped take down Richard Nixon recalls his beginnings in journalism, from the ranks of subpar high school student to audacious teenage newspaper reporter in the nation's capital.
What The Reviewers Say
... charming.
... a fond, earnest, sepia-toned book, the color of old clippings. It’s pretty good. I mean, it’s OK. It’s better than a sharp stick in the eye. It’s just … long and pokey and a bit underthought. I might not have finished it if my paycheck didn’t depend on leaving a clean plate.
... encouragement [to aspiring journalists], along with a supersize helping of nostalgia for a bygone newspaper era of Linotype, phone booths and carbon paper, is among the memorable features of Chasing History.
It would have been easy for the legendary reporter Carl Bernstein to fall into the nostalgia trap with his new book, the memoir Chasing History, which chronicles his earliest years in the newspaper business. Happily, he doesn't.
