Yours in Truth: A Personal Portrait of Ben Bradlee, Legendary Editor of The Washington Post

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Jeff Himmelman

Yours in Truth

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A Personal Portrait of Ben Bradlee, Legendary Editor of The Washington Post

Jeff Himmelman

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Fodor's Travel Publications Inc.,U.S.
15 July 2012

Biography: general; Media, information & communication industries

I hope we're as good friends when you finish your book as we are now,"" Ben Bradlee, the legendary former executive editor of The Washington Post, told Jeff Himmelman in March 2010. ""But I don't give a

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what you write about me.""

So begins Yours in Truth, an intimate portrait of 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 Post during Watergate changed the course of history. Granted unprecedented access to Bradlee and his colleagues, friends, and private files, Himmelman draws on never-before-seen internal Post 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 attache 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 Post owner Katharine Graham, reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, and President Kennedy and his wife, Jackie.

""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 Post 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.

By: Jeff Himmelman
Imprint: Fodor's Travel Publications Inc.,U.S.
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 243mm, Width: 163mm, Spine: 36mm
Weight: 822g
ISBN: 9781400068470
ISBN 10: 1400068479
Pages: 512
Publication Date: 15 July 2012
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Jeff Himmelman is a contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine, where he has been a finalist for a National Magazine Award; his writing has also appeared in New York, GQ, Washingtonian, and The Washington Post. His work with a team of reporters at the Post helped the paper secure the national reporting Pulitzer Prize for its post-9/11 coverage. He is also a professional musician who writes, records, and performs under the name Down Dexter. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and three daughters.

Reviews for Yours in Truth: A Personal Portrait of Ben Bradlee, Legendary Editor of The Washington Post

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. -- Chicago Tribune A fairly complete and rare portrait of this last of the lion-king newspaper editors . . . deftly curates previously published material, boring in on the newly revealed and revealing, ultimately creating the best Bradlee biography we're likely to get. -- The New York Times Book Review Surprising and compulsively readable . . . Himmelman's chapters on Watergate are especially masterful, untangling that web in a fresh and comprehensible way. --Minneapolis Star Tribune A sparkling, revealing, definitely controversial, and very readable book . . . highly amusing, particularly for any connoisseur of juicy modern American politics. -- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette The bold brilliance of Jeff Himmelman's Yours in Truth comes through because it is not simply a biography of a quixotic figure who changed the timbre of American newspapers. Rather, it is also a riveting history lesson with fastidiously researched facts intertwined with first-person observations. --Charleston Post and Courier Embedded in Yours in Truth there are fundamental insights about journalism and the role of a dynamic press. -- The Atlantic The biographer either sells his soul for the cozy dinners or bails for the truth. Himmelman chose the latter. --The Huffington Post Riveting new life of one of America's greatest editors. --The Daily Beast