Michael Interviews...
David Obst
Author of To Good To Be Forgotten
October 31, 1998
Political action, protests, and scandal defined the late 1960s and early 1970s, and David Obst was right in the middle of it all. He helped break the story of the My Lai massacre, and brokered a book deal for a couple of reporters named Woodward and Bernstein.
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David Obst's book, Too Good To Be Forgotten, is available from Amazon.com.
Amazon.com Review
Though much of Obst's book explores territory that has already been well chronicled in other '60s memoirs, Too Good to Be Forgotten has a few fresh surprises--notably his allegation that the infamous "Deep Throat" of Woodward and Bernstein's true-crime Watergate expose, All the President's Men, was actually a composite of several players and not one person at all (a charge Woodward denies). David Obst may fall short of being the spokesperson for his generation, but his undeniable knack for finding himself neck-deep in almost every major story from the 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago to the My Lai massacre makes him a unique commentator on those troubled times.
Review
"Hooray and Hallelujah! David Obst is finally telling all of his secrets about publishing, politics, and the kind of journalism spawned by Watergate. Read this book and head for the bunker." -- Kitty Kelley
"Whether it be My Lai, Watergate, The Pentagon Papers, or any of the other tumultuous events of that era, Obst seems to be in the middle of it. To understand this period, Too Good to be Forgotten is a must read." -- Seymour M. Hersh
...Obst often adopts the tone of the ingénue--as if to recapture the wide-eyed idealism of his youth--in this sometimes amusing but frequently frustrating personal history. -- The New York Times Book Review, Alex Kuczynski
Product Details
- Hardcover: 282 pages
- Publisher: John Wiley & Sons; First edition. edition (September 1998)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0471295388
- ISBN-13: 978-0471295389
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