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Robert Upshur "Bob" Woodward (born March 26, 1943) is an American investigative journalist and non-fiction author. He has worked for ''The Washington Post'' since 1971 as a reporter and is now an associate editor of the ''Post''. While a young reporter for ''The Washington Post'' in 1972, Woodward was teamed up with Carl Bernstein; the two did much of the original news reporting on the Watergate scandal. These scandals led to numerous government investigations and the eventual resignation of President Richard Nixon. The work of Woodward and Bernstein was called "maybe the single greatest reporting effort of all time" by Gene Roberts.〔Roy J. Harris, Jr., ''Pulitzer's Gold,'' 2007, p. 233, Columbia: University of Missouri Press, ISBN 9780826217684.〕 Woodward continued to work for ''The Washington Post'' after his reporting on Watergate. He has since written 16 books on American politics, 12 of which have been bestsellers. ==Early life and career== Woodward was born in Geneva, Illinois, the son of Jane (née Upshur) and Alfred Eno Woodward II, chief judge of the 18th Judicial Circuit Court. He was a resident of Wheaton, Illinois. He enrolled in Yale University with a Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps (NROTC) scholarship, and studied history and English literature. While at Yale, Woodward joined the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity and was a member of the prestigious secret society Book and Snake.〔http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/13/fashion/jeff-himmelmans-new-biography-of-ben-bradlee.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0〕 He received his B.A. degree in 1965, and began a five-year tour of duty in the United States Navy. In his navy career Woodward served in the Office of Naval Intelligence, where he was a part of a group which briefed top intelligence officials; at one time he was close to Admiral Robert O. Welander, being communications officer on the ''USS Fox'' under Welander's command.〔Peter Dale Scott, ''(The Road to 9/11: Wealth, Empire, and the Future of America )'', University of California Press, 2007. p48〕〔Jack Williams, ''U-T San Diego'', July 29, 2005, (Adm. Robert O. Welander, 80; flotilla CO and Joint Chiefs aide )〕 After being discharged as a lieutenant in August 1970, Woodward considered attending law school but applied for a job as a reporter for ''The Washington Post'', while taking graduate courses at The George Washington University. Harry M. Rosenfeld, the ''Posts metropolitan editor, gave him a two-week trial but did not hire him because of his lack of journalistic experience. After a year at the ''Montgomery Sentinel'', a weekly newspaper in the Washington, D.C., suburbs, Woodward was hired as a ''Post'' reporter in 1971 where he was promptly introduced to the CIA's Mockingbird network.〔Woodward, Bob, ''The Secret Man'', pp. 17-20, 27-35, Simon and Schuster, 2005〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bob Woodward」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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