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- 1st Edition
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
ISBN-10
0374235309
ISBN-13
9780374235307
eBay Product ID (ePID)
84517668
Product Key Features
Book Title
Poisoning the Press : Richard Nixon, Jack Anderson, and the Rise of Washington's Scandal Culture
Number of Pages
480 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2010
Topic
Editors, Journalists, Publishers, United States / 20th Century, Corruption & Misconduct, Journalism, General, Presidents & Heads of State, American Government / Executive Branch
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Political Science, Language Arts & Disciplines, Biography & Autobiography, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.5 in
Item Weight
25.3 Oz
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
6.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2010-010272
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
"The rise and fall of Jack Anderson is a newspaper story that needed to be told, as Mark Feldstein has done brilliantly. But there is an even more compelling saga tucked inside this book-Anderson versus President Richard Nixon. Feldstein has given us the disgraced Nixon at his best and worst, and in his own words-scatological, criminal, paranoid, and willing to do anything to rid himself of Anderson's sensational reporting." -Seymour Hersh, author ofChain of Command "Mark Feldstein's compelling reconstruction of the Richard Nixon-Jack Anderson conflict is a groundbreaking history of modern political skulduggery and media scandalmongering. There are no heroes in Feldstein's book-only the ugly truth about two men who had a lasting impact on American politics and journalism.Poisoning the Pressis required reading for anyone interested in the current world of Washington politics and media." -Robert Dallek, author ofLyndon B. JohnsonandAn Unfinished Life "Poisoning the Pressis an important book. It couldn't be more timely and deserves widespread readership . . . [There's] masterful research and reporting rivetingly written . . . Besides that, it reads like a thriller. Pick it up and you're not likely to be able to put it down." -Dan Rather, host ofDan Rather Reports "I lived through a lot of this while working for Jack Anderson and found it a fascinating and evenhanded account." -Brit Hume, senior political analyst, FOX News "When gutter politics are practiced, gutter journalism may be democracy's last line of defense. InPoisoning the Press, Mark Feldstein eviscerates the two giants of those black arts, Richard Nixon and Jack Anderson . . . A superbly told, hilarious tale, which will also scare the hell out of you." -Morley Safer,60 Minutescorrespondent "Poisoning the Press is a stunning tale of political and journalistic dirty tricks. Mark Feldstein reveals how the news is often manufactured in the nation's capital, and how Washington's most feared investigative reporter exposed serious abuses of power even while he smeared his targets with sexual innuendo. More significant still, this enthralling account explains the larger story of how our modern era of political scandal was born." -Michael Isikoff, national investigative correspondent, NBC News "Mark Feldstein'sPoisoning the Pressis a crucially important, brilliantly illuminating work of intense scholarship. As presented in these pages, the legendary feud between Richard Nixon and Jack Anderson reads like a potboiler. It's essential reading for anybody interested in postwar America. A monumental achievement!" -Douglas Brinkley, Professor of History, Rice University, and author ofThe Wilderness Warrior "Poisoning the Pressis a fast-paced tour de force. Riveting and often eye-popping, Mark Feldstein's revelations take us right into the Oval Office, where President Nixon plotted the destruction of his relentless nemesis, columnist Jack Anderson. Feldstein's voluminous research doesn't flinch from Anderson's seamier side, but at his best, the muckraker held the powerful accountable through the kind of investigative journalism often missing in an era of disappearing newspapers and dwindling news budgets." -Cokie Roberts, news analyst, ABC and NPR, and author ofLadies of Liberty, "The rise and fall of Jack Anderson is a newspaper story that needed to be told, as Feldstein has done brilliantly. But there is an even more compelling saga tucked inside this book--Anderson versus President Richard Nixon. Feldstein has given us the disgraced Nixon at his best and worst, and in his own words--scatological, criminal, paranoid, and willing to do anything to rid himself of Anderson's sensational reporting." --Seymour Hersh, author ofChain of Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib "Mark Feldstein's compelling reconstruction of the Richard Nixon-Jack Anderson conflicts is a groundbreaking history of modern political skulduggery and media scandalmongering. There are no heroes in Feldstein's book--only the ugly truth about two men who had a lasting impact on American politics and journalism.Poisoning the Pressis required reading for anyone interested in the current world of Washington politics and media." --Robert Dallek, author ofLyndon B. JohnsonandAn Unfinished Life, "The rise and fall of Jack Anderson is a newspaper story that needed to be told, as Mark Feldstein has done brilliantly. But there is an even more compelling saga tucked inside this book-Anderson versus President Richard Nixon. Feldstein has given us the disgraced Nixon at his best and worst, and in his own words-scatological, criminal, paranoid, and willing to do anything to rid himself of Anderson's sensational reporting." -Seymour Hersh, author of Chain of Command "Mark Feldstein's compelling reconstruction of the Richard Nixon-Jack Anderson conflict is a groundbreaking history of modern political skulduggery and media scandalmongering. There are no heroes in Feldstein's book-only the ugly truth about two men who had a lasting impact on American politics and journalism. Poisoning the Press is required reading for anyone interested in the current world of Washington politics and media." -Robert Dallek, author of Lyndon B. Johnson and An Unfinished Life " Poisoning the Press is an important book. It couldn't be more timely and deserves widespread readership . . . [There's] masterful research and reporting rivetingly written . . . Besides that, it reads like a thriller. Pick it up and you're not likely to be able to put it down." -Dan Rather, host of Dan Rather Reports "I lived through a lot of this while working for Jack Anderson and found it a fascinating and evenhanded account." -Brit Hume, senior political analyst, FOX News "When gutter politics are practiced, gutter journalism may be democracy's last line of defense. In Poisoning the Press , Mark Feldstein eviscerates the two giants of those black arts, Richard Nixon and Jack Anderson . . . A superbly told, hilarious tale, which will also scare the hell out of you." - Morley Safer, 60 Minutes correspondent " Poisoning the Press is a stunning tale of political and journalistic dirty tricks. Mark Feldstein reveals how the news is often manufactured in the nation's capital, and how Washington's most feared investigative reporter exposed serious abuses of power even while he smeared his targets with sexual innuendo. More significant still, this enthralling account explains the larger story of how our modern era of political scandal was born." -Michael Isikoff, national investigative correspondent, NBC News "Mark Feldstein's Poisoning the Press is a crucially important, brilliantly illuminating work of intense scholarship. As presented in these pages, the legendary feud between Richard Nixon and Jack Anderson reads like a potboiler. It's essential reading for anybody interested in postwar America. A monumental achievement!" -Douglas Brinkley, Professor of History, Rice University, and author of The Wilderness Warrior " Poisoning the Press is a fast-paced tour de force. Riveting and often eye-popping, Mark Feldstein's revelations take us right into the Oval Office, where President Nixon plotted the destruction of his relentless nemesis, columnist Jack Anderson. Feldstein's voluminous research doesn't flinch from Anderson's seamier side, but at his best, the muckraker held the powerful accountable through the kind of investigative journalism often missing in an era of disappearing newspapers and dwindling news budgets." -Cokie Roberts, news analyst, ABC and NPR, and author of Ladies of Liberty
Dewey Decimal
973.924092
Synopsis
It is March 1972, and the Nixon White House wants Jack Anderson dead. The syndicated columnist Jack Anderson, the most famous and feared investigative reporter in the nation, has exposed yet another of the President's dirty secrets. Nixon's operatives are ordered to "stop Anderson at all costs"-permanently. Across the street from the White House, they huddle in a hotel basement to conspire. Should they try "Aspirin Roulette" and break into Anderson's home to plant a poisoned pill in one of his medicine bottles? Could they smear LSD on the journalist's steering wheel, so that he would absorb it through his skin, lose control of his car, and crash? Or stage a routine-looking mugging, making Anderson appear to be one more fatal victim of Washington's notorious street crime? Poisoning the Press: Richard Nixon, Jack Anderson, and the Rise of Washington's Scandal Culture recounts not only the disturbing story of an unprecedented White House conspiracy to assassinate a journalist, but also the larger tale of the bitter quarter-century battle between the postwar era's most embattled politician and its most reviled newsman. The struggle between Nixon and Anderson included bribery, blackmail, forgery, spying, and burglary as well as the White House murder plot. Their vendetta symbolized and accelerated the growing conflict between the government and the press, a clash that would long outlive both men. Mark Feldstein traces the arc of this confrontation between a vindictive president and a flamboyant, crusading muckraker who rifled through garbage and swiped classified papers in pursuit of his prey-stoking the paranoia in Nixon that would ultimately lead to his ruin. The White House plot to poison Anderson, Feldstein argues, is a metaphor for the poisoned political atmosphere that would follow, and the toxic sensationalism that contaminates contemporary media discourse. Melding history and biography, Poisoning the Press unearths significant new information from more than two hundred interviews and thousands of declassified documents and tapes. This is a chronicle of political intrigue and the true price of power for politicians and journalists alike. The result-Washington's modern scandal culture-was Richard Nixon's ultimate revenge.
LC Classification Number
E856.F45 2010
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