Bob Woodward’s next book will be an inside account of how the bestselling author and award-winning journalist came to write so many inside accounts.
“Secrets: A Reporter’s Memoir” will offer Woodward’s take on some of the government leaders he has known and the news he has helped break, from Watergate to the inner workings of the Trump administration.
Simon & Schuster announced Tuesday that “Secrets” will come out Sept. 29.
“He has kept notes, transcripts and files of all of his interviews with the most important players in Washington,” the publisher’s announcement reads in part.
“For the first time in this one-of-a-kind reporting memoir, Woodward lifts the lid on his historic reporting relationships, some spanning several decades.”
Woodward, who turns 83 this week, became famous in the 1970s when he and fellow Washington Post journalist Carl Bernstein helped break the Watergate scandal and other news about the Nixon administration that eventually led to President Richard Nixon's resignation.
Woodward also has written or co-written more than 20 bestsellers, including “All the President’s Men,” “Bush at War” and the Trump books “Rage” and “Fear.”
Woodward told The Associated Press during a recent interview that he saw the new book as a chance to “get into the reporting process in detail,” pointing out that he had hourslong conversations with presidents and other leaders. “I’ve had the benefit of not being in a hurry,” he says.
Many of his books are chronicles of current administrations, timed to election years. But shortly after Trump’s win in 2024, he told the AP that he was unsure whether he’d write about him again because he had already reported on Trump throughout his first term.
“I think we know who he is,” Woodward said this week. “He’s so transparent. He’s out there talking, two or three hours a day.”
FILE - Bob Woodward appears at the 2019 PEN America Literary Gala in New York on May 21, 2019. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)
BERLIN (AP) — Rescue teams in northern Germany are working to refloat a humpback whale stranded in shallow water in the Baltic Sea, racing against time in an effort to save its life.
Experts gathered Tuesday morning on the Timmendorfer Strand beach to find a way to get the 10-meter-long (30-feet-long) mammal off the ground after the high tide around midnight was not sufficient for the animal to swim free, German news agency dpa reported.
Earlier rescue efforts on Monday afternoon with police boats, inflatable boats and the help of firefighter drones guiding the rescue efforts were also unsuccessful.
The animal is still alive, breathing, making sounds and occasionally lifting its head, Carsten Mannheimer of the marine conservation organization Sea Shepherd told dpa.
So far, all rescue efforts have proven difficult.
Rescuers initially managed to turn the whale so its head was pointing toward deeper water, hoping it could find its own way back there, but the animal then turned back to its previous position. Boats from the coast guard and the fire department passed by, creating large waves in the hope of freeing the animal — but also without success, German public broadcaster NDR reported.
The animal, which weighs several tons, cannot actively be pulled back into deeper water because it could be seriously injured in the process, experts said.
“If the whale can’t get off the beach, it’s a death sentence for the animal,” Sven Biertümpfel of Sea Shepherd told NDR, adding that the whale’s condition is deteriorating by the hour.
Experts assume that the whale is a young male, as males, unlike females, tend to migrate. It also seems to be the same whale that has been spotted several times in the port of Wismar in eastern Germany in recent weeks.
It was not immediately clear why the whale got stranded, but rescuers found parts of a fishing net wrapped around the body of the whale, which they managed to cut off.
In the meantime, police cordoned off the beach area with construction fences to keep a large crowd of onlookers at bay.
"It is very important that the animal does not become even more stressed,” police spokesperson Ulli Fritz Gerlach said.
A cost guard boat patrols near a whale which washed up on the beach on the Baltic coast near Timmendorfer Strand, Germany, Monday, March 23, 2026. (Ulrich Perrey/dpa via AP)
People from the Institute for Terrestrial and Aquatic Wildlife Research observe a whale washed up on the beach on the Baltic coast near Timmendorfer Strand, Germany, Monday, March 23, 2026. (Ulrich Perrey/dpa via AP)
Rescue workers try to bring a whale stranded on the Baltic Sea coast back into deep water, near Timmendorfer Strand, Germany, Monday, March 23, 2026. (Jens Büttner/dpa via AP)
People from the Institute for Terrestrial and Aquatic Wildlife Research and firefighters attempt to free a whale washed up on the beach on the Baltic coast near Timmendorfer Strand, Germany, Monday, March 23, 2026. (Ulrich Perrey/dpa via AP)
