The Last of the President's Men
Written by Bob Woodward
Narrated by Campbell Scott
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About this audiobook
“Four decades after Watergate shook America, journalist Bob Woodward returns to the scandal to profile Alexander Butterfield, the Richard Nixon aide who revealed the existence of the Oval Office tapes and effectively toppled the presidency…Woodward re-creates detailed scenes, which reveal the petty power plays of America’s most powerful men…a close-up view of the Oval Office in its darkest hour” (Kirkus Reviews). In The Last of the President’s Men, Woodward reveals the untold story based on forty-six hours of interviews with Butterfield, supported by thousands of documents—many of them original and not in the presidential archives and libraries—and uncovered new dimensions of Nixon’s secrets, obsessions, and deceptions.
“This volume…amplifies (rather than revises) the familiar, almost Miltonian portrait of the thirty-seventh president…as a brooding, duplicitous despot, obsessed with enemies and score-settling and not the least bit hesitant about lying to the public and breaking the law” (The New York Times). Today, The Last of the President’s Men could not be more timely and relevant as voters question how much do we know about those who are now seeking the presidency in 2016—what really drives them, how do they really make decisions, who do they surround themselves with, and what are their true political and personal values? This is “yet another fascinating gift to history by DC’s most relentless reporter” (Politico).
Bob Woodward
DR BOB WOODWARD was born in 1947 in Gloucester, United Kingdom. Having studied at state and Steiner schools, he became a co-worker at the Sheiling School in Thornbury, a centre of the Camphill Community, based on the teachings of Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925). He remained within the Camphill Movement for some forty years, teaching children with special educational needs, retiring in 2012. He took a special interest in understanding autism in children and young people. At the age of 46, Bob received an MEd degree from Bristol University, followed by an MPhil at the age of 50 and a PhD from the University of the West of England at the age of 64. As well as being a qualified educator, he is a spiritual healer and the author of several books, including Knowledge of Spirit Worlds, Journeying Into Spirit Worlds and Karma in Human Life. He has been married for some 46 years and has five grown-up children and currently ten grandchildren.
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Reviews for The Last of the President's Men
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A splendid, insightful coda to the circumstances and human character factors that began the process ending Nixon's presidency.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Woodward writes beautifully as usua. Interesting subject and such a flow!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5It brought me back to that time in history. Thanks
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Was not up to Bob Woodward's standard of excellence. However, it was another interesting perspective on a major national event.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Wonderful book and interesting read on Nixon and Butterfield.
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5The Last of the President's Men nice book
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This book was so well written...
Engaging and despite many details, always entertaining. - Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Another great work by the DC master, Bob Woodward. Compelling!
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5There were seven reviews by others that were far better than anything I might write. It is a pity that Alexander Butterfield never published his manuscript about his experience. I listened to the Audiobook version of the Bob Woodward book It took just over six hours.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Fascinating look at Richard Nixon through the eyes of Alexander Butterfield, the man who revealed the existence of the secret recording system in the White House. I found myself feeling sorry for Nixon and wondering how in the world someone so socially inept and emotionally stunted ended up as president.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/55401 The Last of the President's Men, by Bob Woodward (read 24 Aug 2016) This book tells how Alexander Butterfield came to be in Nixon's White House and tells of his time there and that account is interesting but the book becomes super-exciting as it leads up to Butterfield being questioned by staffers of theWatergate Investigating committee. The Democratic staffer did not ask the question but the Republican staffer asked:" "Are you aware of the installation of anylistening devices in the Oval Office?" Butterfield would not lie andanswered truthfully. The entire investigation took a new turn and that question, asked on July 16, 1973, led inexorably toe Nixon's resignation on August 9, 1974. The book is super-interesting, even though we all llmpw the stopry. But hjis book throws new lght on the whole story and I found it super-exciting.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5It's an interesting exposition of Nixon's paranoia and awkwardness in interpersonal relationships. It's not a deep study of the Nixon White House -- confirms the view that Haldeman and Nixon ran everything and lacked any human feelings.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This is an interesting and frightening look at the Nixon White House told from the perspective of Alexander Butterfield, most famous for his disclosure of the White House taping system that helped end a presidency. Butterfield left a promising career in the military to pursue a position in Nixon’s administration through his college association with Bob Haldeman, one of Nixon’s top aides. He ended up working in an office next to the Oval Office for three years, and in such a trusted position knew many of his boss’s secrets as well as his personality quirks. Accompanying his story are the documents that verify his tales, making it an interesting walk through history.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5The Last of the President's Men by Bob Woodward is a thin work that could just as well not be published. It is a hatchet job on Nixon by Woodward. Very biased against Nixon. It never mentions Nixon's triumphs of which there were many. Not worth the detour.