Culture | A journalist’s apprenticeship
Carl Bernstein’s memoir traces his path to Watergate
His book is a vivid and elegiac portrait of a bygone newspaper world
Chasing History: A Kid in the Newsroom. By Carl Bernstein. Henry Holt; 352 pages; $29.99
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