W. Mark Felt
Publishers Lunch Delivers to an Underground Parking Garage
In today's New York Times, Edward Wyatt delivers a journo-publishing scoop: It seems that Bob Woodward's Deep Throat memoir, The Secret Man, is not selling anywhere near as well as its publisher hoped--though it has made a decent showing on bestseller lists.
Like Woodward fighting for three decades to keep W. Mark Felt's identity secret, Wyatt carefully preserves the anonymity of his sources. Nowhere does he mention that the news of the lagging sales was first broken in Publishers Lunch on July 15. Nor does he mention that someone else had noted on July 28 the confusing relationship between the book's lower-than-expected sales and its bestseller status. Look for a credit line around 2036. read more »
What's That Choking Noise? Bob Woodward's Self-Scrutiny
The Secret Man: The Story of Watergate's Deep Throat, by Bob Woodward. Simon & Schuster. read more »
What's That Choking Noise? Bob Woodward's Self-Scrutiny
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Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein walking out of a federal court in 1974; and their secret source, W. Mark Felt, appearing two years later on the CBS news program Face the Nation.
The Secret Man: The Story
of Watergate's Deep Throat,
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The World Needs Disgruntled People
It was grimly unsurprising that the usual suspects lined up to condemn Mark Felt, a.k.a. read more »
Deep Throat Confirmed
Woodward, Bernstein, and Bradlee confirm it. An FBI official, W. Mark Felt, was Deep Throat.
"The thing that stuns me is that the goddamn secret has lasted this long," says Bradlee. read more »
Amazing.
