Poisoning the press : Richard Nixon, Jack Anderson, and the rise of Washington's scandal culture / Mark Feldstein.
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TextPublication details: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, c2010.Edition: 1st edDescription: x, 461 p. ; 24 cmISBN: - 9780374235307
- Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994 -- Relations with journalists
- Anderson, Jack, 1922-2005
- Press and politics United States -- History -- 20th century
- Presidents -- United States -- Press coverage -- Case studies
- United States -- Politics and government -- 1969-1974
- Political corruption -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Political culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Political culture -- Washington (D.C.) -- History -- 20th century
- Presidents -- United States -- Biography
- Journalists -- United States -- Biography
- 20150300
- 973.924092
- 002 E 856 F312p 2010
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [429]-440) and index.
Part I: Beginnings -- 1. The Quaker and the Mormon -- Part II: Rise to power -- 2. Washington whirl -- 3. Bugging and burglary -- 4. Comeback -- Part III: Power -- 5. The president and the columnist -- 6. Revenge -- 7. Vietnam -- 8. The Anderson papers -- 9. Sex, spies, blackmail -- 10. Cat and mouse -- 11. Brothers -- 12. "Destroy this" -- 13. From burlesque to grotesque -- 14. "Kill him" -- 15. Watergate -- 16. Disgrace -- Part IV: Endings -- 17. Final years -- Epilogue.
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, Richard Nixon, and its most reviled newsman, Jack Anderson.
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