How old is Bob Woodward and what books has he written?
JOURNALIST Bob Woodward is 77-years-old and has written more than 19 books about politics.
The veteran journalist broke the story of the Watergate break-in that led to Richard Nixon resigning the presidency.
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Who is Bob Woodward?
Bob Woodward is an American investigative journalist and author.
He began working at the Washington Post as a reporter in 1971.
Woodward is now an associate editor at the paper.
How old is Bob Woodward?
Woodward is 77-years-old.
He rose to fame after reporting on the Watergate scandal in 1972.
Woodward worked alongside reporter Carl Bernstein to investigate the burglary at the National Committee in in the Watergate offices.
The break-in was part of a plot help Nixon's campaign for re-election.
Woodward received intel from a whistleblower who the journalist dubbed "Deep Throat" - a reference to the title of a popular pornographic movie at the time.
Both Woodward and Bernstein kept the man’s identity a secret untilthe whistleblower's family revealed it to Vanity Fair in 2005.
Deep Throat was former Associate Director W. Mark Felt.
The story of Watergate was adapted into a Hollywood film starring Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman.
Woodward received a Pulitzer Prize in 1973 for his work alongside Bernstein.
What books has he written?
Woodward has authored 19 non-fiction books - and 13 of those have landed on the New York Times’ Best-Seller list.
He has enjoyed more number one national nonfiction bestsellers than any contemporary author.
His books include:
- The Original Watergate Stories
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- Autism: A Holistic Approach
- The Fall of a President
- The Man Who Would be President: Dan Quayle
- Maestro: Greenspan's Fed and the American Room
- The Commanders
- The Choice: How Bill Clinton Won
- The Agenda: Inside the Clinton White House
- The Last's of the President's Men
- The War Within: A Secret White House History
- State of Denial: Bush at War III
- The Price of Politics
- Bush at War
- Plan of Attack
- The Secret Man: The Story of Watergate's Deep Throat
- Shadow: Five Presidents and the Legacy of Watergate
- Wired
- Veils: The Secret War of the CIA 1981-1987
- The Brethren: Inside the Supreme Court
- Obama's Wars
- The Final Days
- All the President's Men
- Fear: Trump in the White House
- Rage
Is Bob Woodward married?
Bob Woodward has been married three times.
His first marriage was to his high school sweetheart Kathleen Middlekauff from 1966 to 1969.
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He then married Frances Kuper in 1974 but they divorced in 1979.
Woodward’s final marriage was to Elsa Walsh in 1989 with whom he shares two daughters - Diana, 26, and Taliesin, 43.
Walsh was a writer for The New Yorker and the author of Divided Lives: The Public and Private Struggles of Three American Women.
What did Trump tell Woodward?
told Woodward that was "deadly stuff" on February 7.
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"," Trump told Woodward.
"I still like playing it down, because I don't want to create a panic."
What awards has Bob Woodward won?
Woodward has won almost every journalism award for his work
- Heywood Broun award (1972)
- Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative Reporting (twice: 1982, 1986)
- George Polk Award (1972)
- Sigma Delta Chi Award (1973)
- William Allen White Medal (2000)
- Gerald R. Ford Prize for Reporting on the Presidency (2002)
- Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award (2012)
