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Nonfiction · Investigative journalism

All the President's Men

Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward

1974 · 361 pages

Woodward and Bernstein worked doorsteps, phone books, and a source who met Woodward in a parking garage, tracing campaign money into the White House. Journalism has measured itself against this reporting ever since.

★ 6.8

Nonfiction · History

The Secret History

Procopius

550 · 176 pages

Justinian's official historian kept a second book he could not publish: the emperor a demon pacing the palace at night without a head, the empress insatiable. Nothing from antiquity carries this much hatred.

★ 6.7

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All the President's Men

The Secret History