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Review: Poisoning the Press by Mark Feldstein
Subtitle: Richard Nixon, Jack Anderson, and the Rise of Washington’s Scandal Culture Back in the 1970s, I was a madwoman about Watergate. I read every book that came out, even wrote a graduate paper (which was published in a small, … Continue reading
Review: The Powers That Be by David Halberstam
The Powers That Be could have been titled The Road to Watergate. First published in the mid 1970s, it details the rise of four national media: Time, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times and CBS television. The Powers That … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, Non-Fiction, Journalism
Tagged Ben Bradlee, CBS News, China, Dan Rather, David Halberstam, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Edward R. Murrow, Frank Stanton, Fred Friendly, Henry Kissinger, Henry Luce, John F. Kennedy, Katharine Graham, Los Angeles Times, Lyndon Baines Johnson, McCarthyism, Media History, New York Times, News Reporting, Norman Chandler, Otis Chandler, Pentagon Papers, Philip Graham, Richard Nixon, Theodore White, Time magazine, Vietnam, Walter Cronkite, Watergate, William Paley, World War II
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Review: The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century by Alan Brinkley
After recently reading the biography of Joseph Pulitzer, I hoped Henry Luce — the founder of Time, Life, Fortune and Sports Illustrated – would prove to be a more likable subject. Alas, it was not to be. Born just before … Continue reading
Posted in Biography, Book Reviews, Non-Fiction, History, Journalism
Tagged 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, American History, American Presidents, China, Christian Missionaries, Clare Boothe Luce, Communism, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Harry S Truman, Henry Luce, Herbert Hoover, John F. Kennedy, Journalism, Lyndon Baines Johnson, Magazine Publishing, McCarthyism, Media History, Richard Nixon, Yale
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