Yours in Truth by Jeff Himmelman

Yours in Truth by Jeff Himmelman

An intimate profile of the legendary Washington Post editor whose life and career encompassed Watergate, the Pentagon Papers, and the Kennedys--as portrayed by Tom Hanks in the Steven Spielberg film The Post

A fairly complete and rare portrait of this last of the lion-king newspaper editors.--The New York Times Book Review

Ben Bradlee was a fixture on the American scene for nearly half a century--a close friend to John F. Kennedy; the center of D.C. social life; and a crusty, charismatic editor whose decisions at the helm of the Post during Watergate changed the course of history.

Granted unprecedented access to Bradlee and his colleagues, friends, and private files, Jeff Himmelman draws on never-before-seen internal Post memos, correspondence, personal photographs, and private interviews to trace the full arc of Bradlee's forty-five-year career--from his early days as a press attach in postwar Paris through the Pentagon Papers, Richard Nixon's resignation, the Janet Cooke fabrication scandal, and beyond. Along the way, Himmelman also unearths a series of surprises--about Watergate, and about Bradlee's private relationships with Post owner Katharine Graham, reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, and President Kennedy and his wife, Jackie.

Don't feel that you have to protect me, Bradlee told Himmelman whenever the reporting started to strike close to home. Follow your nose. Those instructions, familiar to any Post reporter, have resulted in this thoughtfully constructed and beautifully written account of a magnetic man whose career has come to define the golden age of newspapers in America, when the press battled for its freedom--and won.

Praise for Yours in Truth

The absolute best nonfiction book of the year . . . a work of journalistic art . . . history straight and true . . . should be required reading at the Columbia School of Journalism.--Chicago Tribune

Surprising and compulsively readable . . . Himmelman's chapters on Watergate are especially masterful, untangling that web in a fresh and comprehensible way.--Minneapolis Star Tribune

A sparkling, revealing, definitely controversial, and very readable book . . . highly amusing, particularly for any connoisseur of juicy modern American politics.--Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Embedded in Yours in Truth there are fundamental insights about journalism and the role of a dynamic press.--The Atlantic

Himmelman, Jeff: - John Himmelman is the author and illustrator of more than seventy-five books for children, including the Bunjitsu Bunny books, Floaty, The Cow Said Meow, Chickens to the Rescue, and Duck to the Rescue. He lives in Connecticut with his artist wife, Betsy.

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ISBN 13	9781400068470
ISBN 10	1400068479
Titel	Yours in Truth
Autor	Jeff Himmelman
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Bindungsart	Hardback
Verlag	Random House USA Inc
Erscheinungsjahr	2012-05-08
Seitenanzahl	512
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