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092 _a973.924
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100 1 _aFeldstein, Mark Avrom.
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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,
_c2010.
300 _ax, 461 p. :
_bill. ;
_c24 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _apt. I. Beginnings. The Quaker and the Mormon -- pt. II. Rise to power. Washington whirl -- Bugging and burglary -- Comeback -- pt. III. Power. The president and the columnist -- Revenge -- Vietnam -- The Anderson papers -- Sex, spies, blackmail -- Cat and mouse -- Brothers -- "Destroy this" -- From burlesque to grotesque -- "Kill him" -- Watergate -- Disgrace -- pt. IV. Endings. 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 _aAnderson, Jack,
_d1922-2005.
_9168682
600 1 0 _aNixon, Richard M.
_q(Richard Milhous),
_d1913-1994
_xRelations with journalists.
_9168683
650 0 _aJournalists
_zUnited States
_vBiography.
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650 0 _aPolitical corruption
_zUnited States
_xHistory
_y20th century.
_945082
650 0 _aPolitical culture
_zUnited States
_xHistory
_y20th century.
_968161
650 0 _aPolitical culture
_zWashington (D.C.)
_xHistory
_y20th century.
_9168684
650 0 _aPresidents
_xPress coverage
_zUnited States
_vCase studies.
_9168685
650 0 _aPresidents
_zUnited States
_vBiography.
_9726
650 0 _aPress and politics
_zUnited States
_xHistory
_y20th century.
_959797
651 0 _aUnited States
_xPolitics and government
_y1969-1974.
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942 _cBOOK
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