Robert Miraldi

Seymour Hersh

Scoop Artist

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Seymour Hersh (b. 1937) has been the most important, famous, and controversial investigative journalist in the United States for the last forty years.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Potomac Books Inc
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 164mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 820g
• ISBN-13: 9781612344751
• ISBN-10: 1612344755
• Artikelnr.: 38539832

Autorenporträt

ROBERT MIRALDI is an award-winning author, journalist, and columnist who has taught at the State University of New York for thirty years. In 2003 his biography, The Pen Is Mightier: The Muckraking Life of Charles Edward Russell, was named the best book in the country in journalism and mass communication. He is the author of two books and editor of three others. In 1992 he was a Fulbright Scholar, lecturing in the Netherlands. His writing on the First Amendment has won national awards. A PhD in American Studies, he teaches classes on media law, press history, and news reporting.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Prologue: Chasing Sy Hersh
Chapter 1. The Story No One Wanted
Chapter 2. The Scoop Heard ’Round the World
Chapter 3. Hersh Becomes a Target
Chapter 4. “Front Page” Lessons in Chicago
Chapter 5. Selling, Publishing, Failing
Chapter 6. From the “Front Page” to the Pentagon
Chapter 7. At War with the Pentagon
Chapter 8. Fighting His Editors
Chapter 9. Finding America’s Hidden Arsenal
Chapter 10. Speaking for Gene McCarthy
Chapter 11. Stunning Triumph over Germs
Chapter 12. Scoop Artist Meets the Viet Cong
Chapter 13. The Times Calls 
Chapter 14. Digging into Watergate
Chapter 15. Cambodia, Bombs, and Impeachment
Chapter 16. Hunting the Coup Plotters
Chapter 17. Skeletons Tumble from the CIA Closet
Chapter 18. The Submarine Caper
Chapter 19. Going after “The Godfather”
Chapter 20. The Big Apple Turns Sour
Chapter 21. Scoop Artist versus Dr. Kissinger
Chapter 22. The Summer’s Literary Furor
Chapter 23. Who Shot Down the Korean Airliner?
Chapter 24. Reporting the Worst-Kept Secret in the World
Chapter 25. Sex, Lies, and Fraud
Chapter 26. Going after Sy Hersh
Chapter 27. The New Yorker Years
Chapter 28. An Alternative View of the Mideast
Chapter 29. Back on Top
Epilogue: A Muckraker’s Unfinished Business
Selected Works of Seymour Hersh
Seymour Hersh Timeline
Notes
Index