Seymour Hersh

Klappentext Seymour Hersh (b. 1937) has been the most important, famous, and controversial investigative journalist in the United States for the last forty years. After beginning his career as a police reporter in Chicago, Hersh went on to become a journalist for United Press International and the Associated Press, before coming to work for the New York Times in 1972. Since then he has published a number of controversial books about U.S. figures and policy, winning several prizes for his efforts, including the 1983 National Book Critics Circle Award.From his expos the My Lai massacre and its cover-up in 1969 to his revelations about torture at Abu Ghraib prison in 2004, Hersh has consistently captured the public imagination and spurred policymakers to reform. He has also drawn the ire of presidents with his revelations, including a revealing volume about the wild and reckless White House under John F. Kennedy.Tracing his journey from the streets of Chicago to the newsrooms of the most powerful newspapers and magazines in the United States, Seymour Hersh tells the story of this Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and author. Robert Miraldi scrutinizes the scandals and national figures that have drawn Hersh s attention, from My Lai to Watergate, from John F. Kennedy to Henry Kissinger.This first-ever biography captures a stunningly successful career of important expos and stunning accomplishments from a man whose unpredictable and quirky personality has turned him into an icon of American life and the unrivaled scoop artist of American journalism. Zusammenfassung Seymour Hersh (b. 1937) has been the most important! famous! and controversial investigative journalist in the United States for the last forty years.

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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.

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List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsPrologue: Chasing Sy HershChapter 1. The Story No One WantedChapter 2. The Scoop Heard ’Round the WorldChapter 3. Hersh Becomes a TargetChapter 4. “Front Page” Lessons in ChicagoChapter 5. Selling, Publishing, FailingChapter 6. From the “Front Page” to the PentagonChapter 7. At War with the PentagonChapter 8. Fighting His EditorsChapter 9. Finding America’s Hidden ArsenalChapter 10. Speaking for Gene McCarthyChapter 11. Stunning Triumph over GermsChapter 12. Scoop Artist Meets the Viet CongChapter 13. The Times Calls Chapter 14. Digging into WatergateChapter 15. Cambodia, Bombs, and ImpeachmentChapter 16. Hunting the Coup PlottersChapter 17. Skeletons Tumble from the CIA ClosetChapter 18. The Submarine CaperChapter 19. Going after “The Godfather”Chapter 20. The Big Apple Turns SourChapter 21. Scoop Artist versus Dr. KissingerChapter 22. The Summer’s Literary FurorChapter 23. Who Shot Down the Korean Airliner?Chapter 24. Reporting the Worst-Kept Secret in the WorldChapter 25. Sex, Lies, and FraudChapter 26. Going after Sy HershChapter 27. The New Yorker YearsChapter 28. An Alternative View of the MideastChapter 29. Back on TopEpilogue: A Muckraker’s Unfinished BusinessSelected Works of Seymour HershSeymour Hersh TimelineNotesIndex

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