Show Page 10 w The Aggie Review Book Review All the President's Men by J Chris Larson the President’s Men Simon & Schuster New York All 336 pages 1974 Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward Don't look now Agatha Christie and Ellery Queen! There's a new ball game in town and it makes your old fashioned murder mysteries about as exciting as watching the Aggies play football The new game called "reporting the facts M'am just the facts" and in All the President's Men there are plenty of facts This is the story of the discovery of the Watergate burglary and the subsequent events Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward have written the how they account of their investigation detailing discovered the greatest political scandal in the history of the United States In detailing that account the two reporters from the Washington Post have created one of the best mystery stories in a long time Complete with names right out of Sherlock Holmes (Could you make up names like Egil Drough Jeb Stuart Magruder Ronald Ziegler HR Haldeman and John Ehrlichman?) they lay down a plot and then build upon it They tell of secret meetings with secret sources in secret places They tell of threats on their lives and threats on the lives of their sources of information They tell of a confrontation with Judge John Sirica in which both is step-by-ste- p reporters were suie they would be sent to jail for tampering with a Grand Jury They escaped with a light If there is a criticism to be made of All the President's Men it is that hand-slappin- g Bernstein and Woodward have included too many facts You can easily become bogged down reading how "Deep Throat" one of their contacts got the information he gave them And reading about Gordon Liddy's monthly telephone bill becomes a drudgery after a while But mostly the book is fascinating reading It leaves the readers with little confidence in the men who run our country but gives us con- fidence by showing that the secret goings on in Washington can be discovered and reported to the American public If you want a copy of All the President's Men the best thing to do is order it from your local book dealer If you wait for the book to be available at the library you'll still be waiting this time next year Here's a list of the coming events for December and January at Clip this and support the events USU at Utah State: ( |