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''"Carl Bernstein, Washington Star."With these words, the sixteen-year-old senior at Montgomery Blair High School set himself apart from the high school crowd and set himself on a track that would define his life. Carl Bernstein was far from the best student in his class -- in fact, he was in danger of not graduating at all -- but he had a talent for writing, a burning desire to know things that other people didn't, and a flair for being in the right place at the right time. Those qualities got him inside the newsroom at the Washington Star, the afternoon paper in the nation's capital, in the summer of 1960, a pivotal time for America, for Washington, D.C., and for a young man in a hurry on the cusp of adulthood.Chasing History opens up the world of the early 1960s as Bernstein experienced it, chasing after grisly crimes with the paper's police reporter, gathering colorful details at a John F.
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Few journalists in America's history have had the impact on their era and their craft as Carl Bernstein. For forty years, from All the President's Men to A Woman-In-Charge: The Life of Hillary Clinton, Bernstein's books, reporting, and commentary have revealed the inner-workings of government, politics, and the hidden stories of Washington and its leaders.In the early 1970s, Bernstein and Bob Woodward broke the Watergate story for The Washington Post, leading to the resignation of President Richard Nixon and setting the standard for modern investigative reporting, for which they and The Post were awarded the Pulitzer Prize.Since then, Bernstein has continued to build on the theme he and Woodward first explored in the Nixon years-the use and abuse of power: political, media, financial, cultural and spiritual power. Renowned as a prose stylist, he has also written a classic biography of Pope John Paul II, served as the founding editor of the first major political website, and been a rock critic.The author of five best-selling books, Bernstein is currently also at work on several multi-media projects, including a memoir about growing up at a Washington newspaper, The Evening Star, during the Kennedy era, which will be released in 2016; and a dramatic TV series about the United States Congress for HBO. He is also an on-air contributor for CNN and a contributing editor of Vanity Fair magazine.His most recent book was the national bestseller A Woman In Charge: The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton, acclaimed as the definitive biography of its subject, published by Knopf.Bernstein's magazine journalism and web commentary continue to combine rare reportorial ability with literary skill: from "The Ballad of John McCain," a millennial portrait of the presidential candidate in Vanity Fair magazine, to ground-breaking Newsweek/Daily Beastc ommentaries in 2011 about the pernicious influence of Rupert Murdoch on the politics, journalism and popular culture of three continents.Since his famous essay, "The Triumph of Idiot Culture," a 1992 cover story for The New Republic about increasing sensationalism, gossip and manufactured controversy as staples of the American press, he has proved a prescient critic of his own profession.With Woodward, Bernstein wrote two classic best sellers: All the President's Men (also a movie starring Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman) , about their coverage of the Watergate story; and The Final Days, about the denouement of the Nixon presidency.His next book, a masterful memoir of his family's experience in the McCarthy era, is titled Loyalties: A Son's Memoir. He is also the co-author of the definitive papal biography, His Holiness: John Paul II and the History of Our Time, which detailed the Pope's pivotal and often clandestine role in the fall of communism.In 1977-78, Bernstein spent a year investigating the CIA's secret relationship with the American press during the Cold W
