Carl Bernstein on life in a 1960s' newsroom

The book tells the story of his journalistic apprenticeship at The Evening Star, the Pepsi to The Washington Post's Coca-Cola, from 1960 to 1965

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