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Carl Bernstein’s new book is his second memoir. His first Loyalties, appeared more than three decades ago, in 1989.
Loyalties was about growing up in an idealistic and radical family — his father, a union organiser, had been a member of the Communist Party in the 1940s — under constant surveillance and harassment from the FBI.
His new one is about how he fell in love with newspapering. As a teenager he was hired as a copy boy at The Evening Star, an afternoon daily in Washington, D C.
It was the moment when he felt he’d been handed a ticket to the
