{"product_id":"9781476716039","title":"The Story: A Reporter's Journey","description":"Judith Miller—star reporter for \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eNew York Times,\u003c\/i\u003e foreign correspondent in some of the most dangerous locations, Pulitzer Prize winner, and longest jailed correspondent for protecting her sources—turns her reporting skills on herself in this “memoir of high-stakes journalism” (\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn\u003ci\u003e The Story\u003c\/i\u003e, Judy Miller turns her journalistic skills on herself and her controversial reporting, which marshaled evidence that led America to invade Iraq. She writes about the mistakes she and others made on the existence in Iraq of weapons of mass destruction. She addresses the motives of some of her sources, including the notorious Iraqi Chalabi and the CIA. She describes going to jail to protect her sources in the Scooter Libby investigation of the outing of CIA agent Valerie Plame and how the \u003ci\u003eTimes\u003c\/i\u003e subsequently abandoned her after twenty-eight years.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eJudy Miller grew up near the Nevada atomic proving ground. She got a job at \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e after a suit by women employees about discrimination at the paper and went on to cover national politics, head the paper’s bureau in Cairo, and serve as deputy editor in Paris and then deputy at the powerful Washington bureau. She reported on terrorism and the rise of fanatical Islam in the Middle East and on secret biological weapons plants and programs in Iraq, Iran, and Russia. Miller shared a Pulitzer for her reporting. She describes covering terrorism in Lebanon, being embedded in Iraq, and going inside Russia’s secret laboratories where scientists concocted designer germs and killer diseases and watched the failed search for WMDs in Iraq.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Story\u003c\/i\u003e vividly describes the real life of a foreign and investigative reporter. It is an account filled with adventure, told with bluntness and wryness.","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47144484503792,"sku":"9781476716039","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781476716039_p0.jpg?v=1763609485","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781476716039","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}