Carl Bernstein

Carl Bernstein on the Palin-Biden debate—From CNN.com:

Who won the Palin-Biden debate? Barack Obama, I suspect.

Who was the big loser? In an historic fortnight that had already underscored his erratic nature, John McCain.

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David Broder on A Woman in Charge

In his September 6, 2007 column, the esteemed Washington Post columnist writes ...

I have been thinking a lot about Sen. Clinton because part of my vacation reading was Carl Bernstein's fine political biography of her, " A Woman in Charge," published earlier this year. Its 600 pages, carefully reported and written with a commendable evenness of tone, offer perhaps the fullest portrait of this potential president.

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Praise from the Critics

"…a model of contemporary political biography . . . thorough, balanced, judicious and deeply reported . . . Bernstein almost always finds new facts and telling details" — Los Angeles Times (Ronald Brownstein)

"A remarkably revealing portrait." —The Wall Street Journal

"….A balanced and convincing picture of Mrs. Clinton . . . [Bernstein] also poses the essential concerns voters will need to confront in deciding whether they will support Mrs. Clinton’s 2008 candidacy." —The New York Times (Robert Dallek, author Nixon and Kissinger)

"Bernstein, the famed All the President's Men journalist, is dead solid perfect in his reporting here …The detail and digging on display in A Woman in Charge is stunning." —Chicago Sun-Times

"A Woman in Charge is the most reliable Hillary Clinton biography to date, a must-read for anybody closely following the 2008 campaign."—Boston Globe (Douglas Brinkley, editor, the Reagan Diaries)

"[Carl Bernstein] has not lost his reporter’s touch, and A Woman in Charge has already refocused serious questions—and supplied new information—about Hillary and Bill Clinton, their past behavior and their current ambitions to regain the White House."—Kevin Phillips, The Washington Post Book World

"Serious, well-researched and fair…A Woman in Charge is painstaking, sensitive and elegantly written." —The Economist

"You could say Bernstein has written the definitive book on Hillary." —Rocky Mountain News

"… one of the best unauthorized biographies I've ever read about a living person.…. Bernstein masterfully explains Clinton as a complicated human being." —St. Petersburg [Fla.] Times

"This superb book … is certain to become the defining biography of Senator Clinton
A Woman In Charge, which Bernstein worked on for more than seven years, was worth waiting for." —Toledo [Ohio] Blade

" sprightly written, often insightful in its judgments, and studded with factual nuggets that enhance the Hillary saga." —Salon.com

"…a considerable achievement." —Christian Science Monitor

"Bernstein has laboured conscientiously to give us a full and fair portrait of this remarkable figure now poised to be even more historic" —Toronto Globe and Mail

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The Palin Pick -- The Devolution of McCain

In one of our many conversations as we crisscrossed the country during his campaign for the 2000 Republican presidential nomination, John McCain said to me, "I've always tried to act on what I thought was the best for the country. And that has guided me.... The only thing I can do is assure people that I would act on principle."

I traveled with McCain for weeks that political season, stayed in Arkansas with him, Cindy, and their children, and - for a Vanity Fair cover profile -- filled dozens of notebooks and tapes with observations from and about a potentially heroic politician who seems far removed from the man running for president today.

Three weeks after the 2008 Republican convention, on the cusp (maybe) of the first presidential debate, it is time to confront an awkward but profound question: whether in picking Sarah Palin as his running mate, John McCain has committed -- by his own professed standards of duty and honor -- a singularly unpatriotic act.

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A Woman In Charge

Now a New York Times and National Bestseller, Carl Bernstein’s stunning portrait of Hillary Rodham Clinton shows us, as nothing else has, the true trajectory of her life and career.

Marshaling all the skills and energy that propelled his history-making Pulitzer Prize reporting on Watergate, Bernstein gives us the most detailed, sophisticated, comprehensive, and revealing account we have had of the complex--and heretofore camouflaged--human being who has already helped define one presidency and may well become, herself, the woman in charge of another.

He has given us a book that enables us, at last, to address the questions Americans are insistently--even obsessively--asking about Hillary Clinton: What is her character? What is her political philosophy? Who is she? What can we expect of her?

Other Books by Carl Bernstein

All the President's Men
(with Bob Woodward)

The Final Days
(with Bob Woodward)

His Holiness
(with Marco Politi)

Loyalties

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