The book is more about Woodward's struggle and less about Felt but I was in no way disappointed by that. The reader (ok, listener) almost feels like an eavesdropper into Woodward's private thoughts. The narrator does an excellent job and if you didn't know better, you could imagine it was Woodward himself telling the story. I thoroughly enjoyed listening to The Secret Man. Perhaps it is a generational thing - I was in college during the Watergate era. This audiobook also includes a reporter's assessment by Carl Bernstein. Now the world can see what happened and why, bringing to a close one of the last chapters of Watergate. Woodward has spent more than three decades asking himself why Mark Felt became Deep Throat. The Secret Man is an intense 33-year journey, providing a one-of-a-kind study of trust, deception, pressures, alliances, doubts, and a lifetime of secrets. The Secret Man chronicles the story in intimate detail, from Woodward's first, chance encounter with Felt in the Nixon White House, to their covert, middle-of-the-night meetings in an underground parking garage, to the aftermath of Watergate and decades beyond, until Felt finally stepped forward at age 91 to unmask himself as Deep Throat. 2 man in the Federal Bureau of Investigation who helped end the presidency of Richard Nixon.
Now, Woodward tells the story of his long, complex relationship with W.
In Washington, D.C., where little stays secret for long, the identity of Deep Throat, the mysterious source who helped Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein break open the Watergate scandal in 1972, remained hidden for 33 years.
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