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The Columnist

2012-04-24 Drama
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Release : 2012-04-24
Genre : Drama
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Book Synopsis The Columnist by : David Auburn

Download or read book The Columnist written by David Auburn. This book was released on 2012-04-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new play from the Pulitzer- and Tony Award-winning author of "Proof," about a newspaper columnist in midcentury America, who is beloved, feared, and courted in equal measure at the nexus of Washington life. Based on the real-life story of Joe Alsop.

The Columnist

2021 Biography & Autobiography
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Release : 2021
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Synopsis The Columnist by : Donald A. Ritchie

Download or read book The Columnist written by Donald A. Ritchie. This book was released on 2021. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the Washington Merry-Go-Round, a nationally syndicated newspaper column that appeared in hundreds of papers from 1932 to 1969, as well as on weekly radio and television programs, the investigative journalist Drew Pearson revealed news that public officials tried to suppress. He disclosed policy disputes and political spats, exposed corruption, attacked bigotry, and promoted social justice. He pumped up some political careers and destroyed others. Presidents, prime ministers, and members of Congress repeatedly called him a liar, and he was sued for libel more often than any other journalist, but he won most of his cases by proving the accuracy of his charges. Pearson dismissed most official news as propaganda and devoted his column to reporting what officials were doing behind closed doors. He broke secrets-even in wartime-and revealed classified information. Fellow journalists credited him with knowing more dirt about more people in Washington than even the FBI and compared his efforts to Daniel Ellsberg with the Pentagon Papers or Edward Snowden with WikiLeaks, except that he did it daily. The Columnist examines how Pearson managed to uncover secrets so successfully and why government efforts to find his sources proved so unsuccessful. Drawing on a half century of archival evidence it assesses his contributions as a muckraker by verifying or refuting both his accusations and his accusers"--

The Columnist

2021-05-01 Language Arts & Disciplines
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Release : 2021-05-01
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Book Rating : 608/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Columnist by : Donald A. Ritchie

Download or read book The Columnist written by Donald A. Ritchie. This book was released on 2021-05-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long before Wikileaks and social media, the journalist Drew Pearson exposed to public view information that public officials tried to keep hidden. A self-professed "keyhole peeper", Pearson devoted himself to revealing what politicians were doing behind closed doors. From 1932 to 1969, his daily "Washington Merry-Go-Round" column and weekly radio and TV commentary broke secrets, revealed classified information, and passed along rumors based on sources high and low in the federal government, while intelligence agents searched fruitlessly for his sources. For forty years, this syndicated columnist and radio and television commentator called public officials to account and forced them to confront the facts. Pearson's daily column, published in more than 600 newspapers, and his weekly radio and television commentaries led to the censure of two US senators, sent four members of the House to prison, and undermined numerous political careers. Every president from Franklin Roosevelt to Richard Nixon--and a quorum of Congress--called him a liar. Pearson was sued for libel more than any other journalist, in the end winning all but one of the cases. Breaking secrets was the heartbeat of Pearson's column. His ability to reveal classified information, even during wartime, motivated foreign and domestic intelligence agents to pursue him. He played cat and mouse with the investigators who shadowed him, tapped his phone, read his mail, and planted agents among his friends. Yet they rarely learned his sources. The FBI found it so fruitless to track down leaks to the columnist that it advised agencies to simply do a better job of keeping their files secret. Drawing on Pearson's extensive correspondence, diaries, and oral histories, The Columnist reveals the mystery behind Pearson's leaks and the accuracy of his most controversial revelations.

The Columnist

2020-10-06 Fiction
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Release : 2020-10-06
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 963/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Columnist by : Jeffrey Frank

Download or read book The Columnist written by Jeffrey Frank. This book was released on 2020-10-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Years of backstabbing and betrayal start to catch up with one of Washington’s elite opinion writers, “a character that deserves to jump outside the Beltway and enter the language like ‘Uncle Tom,’ ‘Peter Pan,’ or ‘Scrooge.’” (Ron Charles, Christian Science Monitor). During a cocktail party, George H. W. Bush encourages Brandon Sladder, the prominent Washington columnist, to write his memoirs. Sladder has, after all, known just about everyone of importance. From talking on intimate terms with world leaders, being a witness to enormous change, and expressing his weighty opinions on matters of state, he believes that his own story could add so much more than a footnote to our age. But what is meant to be a look back at his life and our times turns out to be far more revealing. The Columnist is Sladder’s attempt to burnish his image for posterity. What emerges is something else: the misadventures of an irresistibly loathsome man—self-important, social climbing, dangerously oblivious, “an unforgettable character who is lovably hateable” (Susan Orlean, author of The Library Book) and one of the most memorable rogues in contemporary fiction. The Columnist is a dead-on, elegantly written portrait of the media and politics of the second half of the twentieth century—“It’s Balzac as word-processed by Philip Roth, only, for my two cents…funnier…[A] great American novel” (Christopher Buckley, author of Thank You for Smoking).

The Columnist's Blog

2010-09-15 Fiction
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Release : 2010-09-15
Genre : Fiction
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Book Synopsis The Columnist's Blog by : Ashley Barnett Smith

Download or read book The Columnist's Blog written by Ashley Barnett Smith. This book was released on 2010-09-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leslie Ward, a star columnist’s at New York News Events, whose column created a bigbuzz in different social networks including her own blog became a target of a blogger with a twisted mind whose arguments with the rest of her bloggers resulted into a deadlyspin leaving his murdered victims in the city.

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