Of All the President's Men, Deep Throat Revealed

Posted on June 3, 2005

Go back in time with us to 1974: platform heels, bellbottom jeans and really hideous eyewear were all the rage, along with a book called All the President's Men, in which Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein laid bare the story behind Watergate. It was made into a movie starring Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman. Now that Deep Throat himself has been revealed as the former #2 guy at the FBI, Mark Felt, the book is hot once again.

The behind-the-scenes account of the Watergate scandal by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, whose investigation for the Washington Post led to President Richard Nixon's resignation, rocketed up the best-seller lists on Thursday, hitting No. 27 on Amazon.com.
The renewed popularity of the 1974 book comes after revelations that former FBI No. 2 Mark Felt was the reporters' mysterious super-source, Deep Throat. "It's a huge news story of historic importance, something the world has been speculating about," said Victoria Meyer, spokeswoman for Simon & Schuster, a unit of Viacom and publisher of All the President's Men. "It's no surprise to us that there is consumer interest in learning more," Meyer said.
From a ranking somewhere above 10,000 at the start of the week, the book now ranks No. 44 on Barnes & Noble.com's best-seller list. And DVD sales of the Dustin Hoffman and Robert Redford movie based on the book proved just as hot, coming in at No. 28 on the site's hottest selling list.

Remember that famous photo of Bernstein and Woodward working at a computer, showing the two young reporters? Well, they issued a new photo with the same two guys. And it's clear that Woodward has won the "who aged best" contest. But for us, they'll always look like Redford and Hoffman.