I recently finished reading _All the President's Men_ for my comps. It's a fun book in a lot of ways, but I also think it could come in handy for a writing class. As Woodward and Bernstein investigate the Watergate break-in, they get numerous sources to confirm or deny stories and facts, or even provide new information. Still, some sources refuse to go on record or only provide information on background. What I found really fascinating was the newsroom scenes after talking to sources. The two reporters, and their editors, argue about how to present evidence, and how to word the stories themselves so that they can make claims and arguments (in this case about political corruption) while still backing everything up with evidence. These passages in the book often detail changes from first and second drafts. A lot the dramatic tension is actually built around revising pieces of writing. And of course, the Nixon team goes after Woodward and Bernstein's ethos as the book goes on. In an odd way, this book dramatized a lot of the concepts we try to teach in rhetoric in composition classes. Given that I've classes that don't even get references to the 1990s, maybe Watergate wouldn't be interesting to them, but I can also see it working in a rhetoric class.