NYT: Three Decades Later, 'Woodstein' Takes a Victory Lap

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Three Decades Later, 'Woodstein' Takes a Victory Lap
By TODD S. PURDUM
Published: June 3, 2005


....No longer "the boys" to whom their gruffly elegant editor, Benjamin C. Bradlee, turned as The Washington Post's best hope of cracking the riddle of Watergate, Mr. Bernstein and Mr. Woodward are late-middle-aged men, a decade older than Mr. Bradlee was when they made their names in 1972. They long ago went their separate professional ways, Mr. Woodward to stability and riches, Mr. Bernstein to a more peripatetic stroll along the rich buffet of life....

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...from thinner to thicker, through richer and poorer, the two have preserved a special relationship, one that friends say has now led Mr. Woodward, 62, who had all but finished a manuscript on his secret-source relationship with W. Mark Felt, to take Mr. Bernstein, 61, aboard for one more project that seems likely to become this summer's hot book.

One tentative plan is to have Mr. Bernstein write new material and share some kind of cover credit, though not co-authorship, according to a prominent publishing industry figure who insisted on anonymity because of the delicacy of the negotiations between the onetime colleagues.

But as they appeared together Thursday night on "Larry King Live," Mr. Bernstein said, "It'll probably be by both of us," while a somber-faced Mr. Woodward, who was caught on videotape Thursday visiting the White House for yet another book project, on the second Bush administration, graciously allowed only that they could get a book deal if they wanted one.

In that moment, as it has for three decades, their collaboration defied easy definition....


http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/03/politics/03woodstein.html