Washington Post legend Bob Woodward is now quietly working on a new book about the Obama White House. In the current issue of the New Republic, I have a piece that reports on Woodward’s new book project. In early May, the White House circulated a memo that told officials not to speak with authors before clearing the interview with the press office. The Obama White House, despite vaunted claims of “transparency,” is focused on controlling information just as every previous White House has been.
Woodward told me he’s not worried about the Obama team shutting him out. “People make their individual choices about what they’re going to do, even in the White House and in the government,” he said. “Over my four decades of working on books, you find that some people will help, some people won’t help, some will help at certain stages and not at others, some people won’t help at the beginning but will help later on. That’s reporting.”
Now the parlor game begins. Who in the Obama orbit will be cooperating…
Read the full piece HERE
My New York Magazine cover story, “Testing Horace Mann,” which investigated a series of scandals at the prestigious New York City prep school, was nominated for a 2008 Livingston Award for Young Journalists. The piece was published in the March, 30 2008 issue of New York. On March 15 2009, I published an exclusive 