{"product_id":"yours-in-truth-book-jeff-himmelman-9780812980561","title":"Yours in Truth","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn intimate profile of the legendary \u003ci\u003eWashington Post \u003c\/i\u003eeditor whose life and career encompassed Watergate, the Pentagon Papers, and the Kennedys--as portrayed by Tom Hanks in the Steven Spielberg film \u003ci\u003eThe Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eA fairly complete and rare portrait of this last of the lion-king newspaper editors.--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003ePost\u003c\/i\u003e during Watergate changed the course of history. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Granted unprecedented access to Bradlee and his colleagues, friends, and private files, Jeff Himmelman draws on never-before-seen internal \u003ci\u003ePost\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003ePost\u003c\/i\u003e owner Katharine Graham, reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, and President Kennedy and his wife, Jackie. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003ePost\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eYours in Truth\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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.\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Surprising and compulsively readable . . . Himmelman's chapters on Watergate are especially masterful, untangling that web in a fresh and comprehensible way.\u003cb\u003e--Minneapolis \u003ci\u003eStar Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A sparkling, revealing, definitely controversial, and very readable book . . . highly amusing, particularly for any connoisseur of juicy modern American politics.\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003ePittsburgh Post-Gazette\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Embedded in \u003ci\u003eYours in Truth\u003c\/i\u003e there are fundamental insights about journalism and the role of a dynamic press.\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49572537499921,"sku":"GOR009339877","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":49700427727121,"sku":"CIN0812980565A","price":4.08,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49968033628433,"sku":"CIN0812980565G","price":6.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50940492775697,"sku":"CIN0812980565VG","price":6.41,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50974501470481,"sku":"GOR014155259","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0812980565.jpg?v=1751427225","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/yours-in-truth-book-jeff-himmelman-9780812980561","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}