[1][2] Mayhew edited many notable authors, which include Bob Woodward, President Jimmy Carter, Doris Kearns Goodwin, David Brooks, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Mayhew was known for publishing books about Washington, D.C., such as All the President's Men by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein using a genre which is known as a political narrative, a subgenre of creative nonfiction.
[3] According to Michael Korda in his biography, this book changed America and played a major role in bringing down President Richard Nixon.
[6] In 2018, ten years later, Bob Woodward also thanked Alice Mayhew in the acknowledgments of his book, Fear: Trump in the White House in 2018.
When released Fear: Trump in the White House became the fastest opener in Simon & Schuster, selling one million copies in its first week of publication.
"[3] In later years, Mayhew came under some criticism for delegating editing, having two well-known authors be accused of plagiarism (Doris Kearns Goodwin and Stephen Ambrose), and producing popular history books with little to no sourcing.