Named one of the Best Investigative Reporters in America by The New York Times, Bob Woodward has been the Assistant Managing Editor of Investigative News for The Washington Post since 1982.
In 1973, Bob Woodward teamed with Carl Bernstein at The Post to investigate the burglary at the Watergate office building. For their reporting of the scandal in the Nixon administration, the newspaper was awarded the Pulitzer Prize.
Prior to reporting, Woodward served in the U.S. Navy as a communications officer. He began his career as a "newspaper man" with the Sentinel, out of Montgomery County, Maryland. In 1971 he joined The Post and in 1979 became Assistant Managing Editor of Metropolitan News.
Woodward is the only contemporary American writer to author at least seven number one best selling non fiction books, including: All the President's Men and The Final Days, co authored with Bernstein and The Brethren: Inside the Supreme Court, co-authored by former staff writer Scott Armstrong.
Other books include Wired: The Short Life and Fast Times of John Belushi, Veil: The Secret Wars of the CIA, The Commanders, The Man Who Would Be President: Dan Quayle, The Agenda: Inside The Clinton White House, and The Choice. In 2000 he published, Maestro: Greenspan's Fed and the American Boom, a national bestseller, a look at the American economy and Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan's economic legacy.
Bob Woodward's most recent releases include Bush at War (2002), and Plan of Attack (2004).