Books: My Father the Communist

LOYALTIES by Carl Bernstein; Simon & Schuster; 262 pages; $18.95

In the 15 years since he helped topple a President, Carl Bernstein has become famous more as a celebrity than as a journalist. He has been pictured on the gossip pages with a procession of notable women. He was portrayed by Dustin Hoffman in All the President's Men, based on the Watergate book he co- authored with Bob Woodward, and, as a fictional character, by Jack Nicholson in Heartburn, based on a cleverly barbed novel by his former wife, Nora Ephron. All the while, he was waging an off-and-on struggle with...

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