Volume 23, Number 10 · June 10, 1976
Unasked Questions
By Nicholas von Hoffman
The Final Days
by Bob Woodward, by Carl Bernstein
Simon and Schuster, 476 pp., $11.95
Instead of giving their new book a title of almost Churchillian grandeur, Woodward and Bernstein ought to have called it 'Daddy Loses His Job.' Although the background for their story is the monumental marble of Washington, The Final Days is mostly about what happened to the friends and relatives when the father, breadwinner and head of an upwardly mobile, Southern California family, was unexpectedly fired from a job that everybody supposed would keep them all on easy street for the rest of their lives.
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