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1 online resource |
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Prologue : Chasing Sy Hersh -- Acknowledgments -- The Story No One Wanted -- The Scoop Heard 'Round the World -- Hersh Becomes a Target -- "Front Page" Lessons in Chicago -- Selling, Publishing, Failing -- From the "Front Page" to the Pentagon -- At War with the Pentagon -- Fighting His Editors -- Finding America's Hidden Arsenal -- Speaking for Gene McCarthy -- Stunning Triumph over Germs -- Scoop Artist Meets the Viet Cong -- The Times Calls -- Digging into Watergate -- Cambodia, Bombs, and Impeachment -- Hunting the Coup Plotters -- Skeletons Tumble from the CIA Closet -- The Submarine Caper -- Going after "The Godfather" -- The Big Apple Turns Sour -- Scoop Artist versus Dr. Kissinger -- The Summer's Literary Furor -- Who Shot Down the Korean Airliner? -- Reporting the Worst-Kept Secret in the World -- Sex, Lies, and Fraud -- Going after Sy Hersh -- The New Yorker Years -- An Alternative View of the Mideast -- Back on Top -- Epilogue : A Muckraker's Unfinished Business -- Selected Works of Seymour Hersh -- Seymour Hersh Timeline |
| Summary |
Seymour Hersh has been perhaps the most important, famous, and controversial journalist in the United States for the last forty years. From his exposé of the My Lai massacre in 1969 to his revelations about torture at Abu Ghraib prison in 2004, Hersh has consistently captured the public imagination, spurred policymakers to reform, and drawn the ire of presidents. From the streets of Chicago to the newsrooms of the most powerful newspapers and magazines in the United States, this book tells the story of this Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author. The author scrutinizes the scandals and national figures that have drawn Hersh's attention, from My Lai to Watergate, from John F. Kennedy to Henry Kissinger |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Hersh, Seymour M
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Hersh, Seymour M. fast |
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Journalists -- United States -- Biography
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Journalism.
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Diplomatic relations
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Journalists
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Politics and government
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Journalism & Communications.
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Journalism.
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United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140467
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United States -- Politics and government -- 1989- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh93001744
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United States -- Foreign relations -- 1945-1989.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140098
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United States -- Foreign relations -- 1989-
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh93001742
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781612344768 |
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1612344763 |
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