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_bF312p 2010
082 0 0 _a973.924092
100 1 _aFeldstein, Mark Avrom.
245 1 0 _aPoisoning the press :
_bRichard Nixon, Jack Anderson, and the rise of Washington's scandal culture /
_cMark Feldstein.
250 _a1st ed.
260 _aNew York :
_bFarrar, Straus and Giroux,
_cc2010.
300 _ax, 461 p. ;
_c24 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [429]-440) and index.
505 0 _aPart 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.
520 _aRecounts 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.
600 1 0 _aNixon, Richard M.
_q(Richard Milhous),
_d1913-1994
_xRelations with journalists.
600 1 0 _aAnderson, Jack,
_d1922-2005.
650 0 _aPress and politics United States
_xHistory
_y20th century.
650 0 _aPresidents
_zUnited States
_xPress coverage
_vCase studies.
651 0 _aUnited States
_xPolitics and government
_y1969-1974.
650 0 _aPolitical corruption
_zUnited States
_xHistory
_y20th century.
650 0 _aPolitical culture
_zUnited States
_xHistory
_y20th century.
650 0 _aPolitical culture
_zWashington (D.C.)
_xHistory
_y20th century.
650 0 _aPresidents
_zUnited States
_vBiography.
650 0 _aJournalists
_zUnited States
_vBiography.
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