The Choice: How Bill Clinton Won pdf

Robert Upshur Woodward (born March 26, 1943) is an American investigative journalist. He started working for The Washington Post as a reporter in 1971 and now holds the title of associate editor.While a young reporter for The Washington Post in 1972, Woodward teamed up with Carl Bernstein, and the two did much of the original news reporting on the Watergate scandal. These scandals led to numerous government investigations and the eventual resignation of President Richard Nixon. The work of Woodward and Bernstein was called "maybe the single greatest reporting effort of all time" by longtime journalism figure Gene Roberts.Woodward continued to work for The Washington Post after his reporting on Watergate. He has written 21 books on American politics and current affairs, 13 of which have topped best-seller lists. Woodward was born in Geneva, Illinois, the son of Jane (née Upshur) and Alfred E. Woodward, a lawyer who later became chief judge of the 18th Judicial Circuit Court. He was raised in nearby Wheaton, Illinois, and educated at Wheaton Community High School (WCHS), a public high school in the same town.His parents divorced when he was twelve, and he and his brother and sister were raised by their father, who subsequently remarriedAfter being discharged as a lieutenant in August 1970, Woodward was admitted to Harvard Law School but elected not to attend. Instead, he applied for a job as a reporter for The Washington Post while taking graduate courses in Shakespeare and international relations at George Washington University. Harry M. Rosenfeld, the Post's metropolitan editor, gave him a two-week trial but did not hire him because of his lack of journalistic experience. After a year at the Montgomery Sentinel, a weekly newspaper in the Washington, D.C., suburbs, Woodward was hired as a Post reporter in 1971.

The Choice: How Bill Clinton Won pdf by Bob Woodward

The Choice is Bob Woodward's classic story of the quest for power, focusing on the 1996 presidential campaign as a case study of money, public opinion polling, attack advertising, handlers, consultants, and decision making in the midst of electoral uncertainty. President Bill Clinton is examined in full in the contest with Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, the Republican presidential nominee. The intimacy and detail of Woodward's account of the candidates and their wives show the epic human struggle in this race for the White House.
"Karen Alexander, a 1993 graduate of Yale University, has been with me every step of the way on this project. Attempting to write a book about an ongoing presidential campaign is both an endurance contest and a high-speed chase. She brought unmatched intellect, grace and doggedness and an ingrained sense of fairness to this book. Karen was my collaborator on the reporting, writing, editing and thinking. She spent weeks in the home states of candidates, gathering research and doing vast amounts of original reporting. Each day she enriched both the project and the lives of myself and my wife, Elsa Walsh. We were able to confide in her and rely on her in every way. This book could not have been done without Karen, and it is hers as much as mine. As she leaves to pursue her own writing career, she falls into that rare category of “friend for life.”