Volume 27, Number 1 · February 7, 1980
Supreme Court Confidential
By Anthony Lewis
The Brethren: Inside the Supreme Court
by Bob Woodward, by Scott Armstrong
Simon and Schuster, 467 pp., $13.95
A journalistic challenge to institutional secrecy—what Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein did so well when they investigated Watergate—depends on credibility. In their reports for the Washington Post Woodward and Bernstein had freshness on their side, an absence of obligation to the establishment. But they succeeded in the end because they were believable, and Richard Nixon was not.
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