{"product_id":"9780812980561","title":"Yours in Truth: A Personal Portrait of Ben Bradlee, Legendary Editor of The Washington Post","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn intimate profile of the legendary \u003ci\u003eWashington Post \u003c\/i\u003eeditor whose life and career encompassed Watergate, the Pentagon Papers, and the Kennedys—as portrayed by Tom Hanks in the Steven Spielberg film \u003ci\u003eThe Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e“A fairly complete and rare portrait of this last of the lion-king newspaper editors.”—\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBen Bradlee was a fixture on the American scene for nearly half a century—a close friend to John F. Kennedy; the center of D.C. social life; and a crusty, charismatic editor whose decisions at the helm of the \u003ci\u003ePost\u003c\/i\u003e during Watergate changed the course of history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGranted unprecedented access to Bradlee and his colleagues, friends, and private files, Jeff Himmelman draws on never-before-seen internal \u003ci\u003ePost\u003c\/i\u003e memos, correspondence, personal photographs, and private interviews to trace the full arc of Bradlee’s forty-five-year career—from his early days as a press attaché in postwar Paris through the Pentagon Papers, Richard Nixon’s resignation, the Janet Cooke fabrication scandal, and beyond. Along the way, Himmelman also unearths a series of surprises—about Watergate, and about Bradlee’s private relationships with \u003ci\u003ePost\u003c\/i\u003e owner Katharine Graham, reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, and President Kennedy and his wife, Jackie.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Don’t feel that you have to protect me,” Bradlee told Himmelman whenever the reporting started to strike close to home. “Follow your nose.” Those instructions, familiar to any \u003ci\u003ePost\u003c\/i\u003e reporter, have resulted in this thoughtfully constructed and beautifully written account of a magnetic man whose career has come to define the golden age of newspapers in America, when the press battled for its freedom—and won.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eYours in Truth\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The absolute best nonfiction book of the year . . . a work of journalistic art . . . history straight and true . . . should be required reading at the Columbia School of Journalism.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Surprising and compulsively readable . . . Himmelman’s chapters on Watergate are especially masterful, untangling that web in a fresh and comprehensible way.”\u003cb\u003e—Minneapolis \u003ci\u003eStar Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A sparkling, revealing, definitely controversial, and very readable book . . . highly amusing, particularly for any connoisseur of juicy modern American politics.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003ePittsburgh Post-Gazette\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Embedded in \u003ci\u003eYours in Truth\u003c\/i\u003e there are fundamental insights about journalism and the role of a dynamic press.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Random House Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47007866749168,"sku":"9780812980561","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780812980561_p0.jpg?v=1763738887","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780812980561","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}