Community Read: "All the President's Men"
Explore the history behind the Watergate scandal
In 2026, the Nation commemorates its 250th anniversary. The library will celebrate all year long by looking at American life, history and culture. Join us for a community read event to discuss "All the President’s Men," Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward's riveting account of the investigation by two Washington Post reporters that smashed the Watergate scandal wide open. The community discussion will be prefaced by a brief presentation on the Watergate scandal by George Mason University Professor Jeremy Mayer. The Library has unlimited eAudiobook copies of this work available.
For more library programs that commemorates the Nation's 250th anniversary, please check out the Arlington 250 website.
REGISTRATION RECOMMENDED: First-come, first-served seating. By registering, you will receive event updates.
For more information, contact LibraryPrograms@arlingtonva.us
This program supports the Library's celebration of Arlington250.
- Date:
- Thursday, May 21, 2026
- Time:
- 6:30pm - 7:30pm
- Location:
- Barbara M. Donnellan Auditorium
- Library:
- Central Library
- Audience:
- Events for Adults
- Categories:
- Book Discussion History
- Calendar:
- Arlington Public Library
Jeremy Mayer is a professor in the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University, where he also directs the masters program in political science.
He is the author of Running on Race: Racial Politics in Presidential Campaigns 1960-2000 (Random House 2002), the brief textbook 9-11: The Giant Awakens (Wadsworth 2002, 2nd edition 2006), and American Media Politics in Transition (McGraw Hill 2006), and coauthor of African American Statewide Candidates in the New South (Oxford 2022), The South and the Transformation of U.S. Politics (Oxford 2019), and Closed Minds? Politics and Ideology in Higher Education (Brookings 2008).
He has written articles on diverse topics such as presidential image management, Christian right politics, public opinion and torture, and comparative political socialization, in journals such as Presidential Studies Quarterly, Social Science Quarterly, and the Historian.
Mayer has also studied politics at Oxford, Michigan, and Brown. He has trained new American diplomats and ambassadors for the State Department at their Foreign Service Institute since 2002. He has spoken on behalf of the State Department in Germany, Moldova, and Mexico, as well as regularly to visiting foreign delegations in Washington. He has offered political commentary to major networks, including the World News Tonight, BBC, Fox News, Sky News, PBS’s Newshour, NPR, CNBC, and local affiliates, as well as many national newspapers.