
Yours in Truth
A Personal Portrait of Ben Bradlee, Legendary Editor of The Washington Post
$54.58
- Hardcover
512 pages
- Release Date
15 July 2012
Summary
“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 expletive deleted 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 h…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781400068470 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1400068479 |
| Author: | Jeff Himmelman |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Fodor's Travel Publications Inc.,U.S. |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 512 |
| Release Date: | 15 July 2012 |
| Weight: | 822g |
| Dimensions: | 243mm x 163mm x 36mm |
What They're Saying
Critics Review
“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
“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
“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
“[A] riveting new life of one of America’s greatest editors.”—The Daily Beast
About The Author
Jeff Himmelman
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.
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