TY  - BOOK
AU  - Feldstein,Mark Avrom
TI  - Poisoning the press: Richard Nixon, Jack Anderson, and the rise of Washington's scandal culture 
SN  - 9780374235307
AV  - 002 E 856 F312p 2010
U1  - 973.924092 
PY  - 2010///
CY  - New York
PB  - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
KW  - Nixon, Richard M.
KW  - Anderson, Jack,
KW  - Press and politics United States
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Presidents
KW  - United States
KW  - Press coverage
KW  - Case studies
KW  - Political corruption
KW  - Political culture
KW  - Washington (D.C.)
KW  - Biography
KW  - Journalists
KW  - 20150300
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 1969-1974
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
ER  -