Yours in Truth: A Personal Portrait of Ben Bradlee, Legendary

Yours in Truth: A Personal Portrait of Ben Bradlee, Legendary Editor of The Washington Post
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â€œI hope weâ€™re as good friends when you finish your book as we are now,â€ Ben Bradlee, the legendary former executive editor of The Washington Post, told Jeff Himmelman in March 2010. â€œBut I donâ€™t give a [expletive deleted] what you write about me.â€
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So begins Yours in Truth, an intimate portrait of a fixture on the American scene for nearly half a centuryâ€”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, Himmelman draws on never-before-seen internal Post memos, correspondence, personal photographs, and private interviews to trace the full arc of Bradleeâ€™s forty-five-year careerâ€”from his early days as a press attachÃ© in postwar Paris through the Pentagon Papers, Richard Nixonâ€™s resignation, the Janet Cooke fabrication scandal, and beyond. Along the way, Himmelman also unearths a series of surprisesâ€”about Watergate, and about Bradleeâ€™s private relationships with Post owner Katharine Graham and President Kennedy and his wife, Jackie.
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â€œDonâ€™t feel that you have to protect me,â€ Bradlee told Himmelman whenever the reporting started to strike close to home. â€œFollow your nose.â€ 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 freedomâ€”and won.

â€œThe 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.â€â€”Chicago Tribune

Country	USA
Brand	Random House Books for Young Readers
Manufacturer	Random House
Binding	Hardcover
PartNumber	localization_1400068479
Color	White
Height	9.55
Length	6.4
Weight	1.84967837818
Width	1.41
ReleaseDate	2012-05-08
NumberOfItems	1

Yours in Truth: A Personal Portrait of Ben Bradlee, Legendary Editor of The Washington Post

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