MARC Record from Library of Congress

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100 1 $aFeldstein, Mark Avrom.
245 10 $aPoisoning the press :$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 10 $aNixon, Richard M.$q(Richard Milhous),$d1913-1994$xRelations with journalists.
600 10 $aAnderson, Jack,$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.