The Final Days
Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein follow their Watergate reporting with a detailed chronicle of Richard Nixon's last months in office. Drawing on hundreds of interviews, the authors reconstruct the mood inside the White House as the scandal closes in, the tapes are released, support drains away, and Nixon moves toward resignation in August 1974. The book portrays the president as increasingly isolated and emotional, and it depicts the aides, family members, and officials around him as they manage a government in crisis. As a sequel to All the President's Men, it is a key work of modern political reporting and a study of power under collapse, written close enough to the events to capture the strain felt by everyone in the building.
What you might want to know about The Final Days
The questions readers send us most often, answered without spoilers.
A close, day-by-day account of the collapse of Richard Nixon's presidency during the final months of Watergate.
Yes. It follows the same authors' Watergate reporting and covers the final collapse of the Nixon presidency.
It focuses on the last months of Nixon's presidency leading up to his resignation in August 1974.
The Final Days was written by Bob Woodward, published in 1976 by Avon..
The Final Days is 529 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, The Final Days takes most readers 8 to 11 hours to finish.
The Final Days is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.