His leadership and investigative drive during the Watergate scandal led to the downfall of a president, and his challenge to the government over the right to publish the Pentagon Papers changed the course of American history.īradlee’s timeless memoir is a fascinating, irreverent, earthy, and revealing look at America and American journalism in the twentieth century - a “sassy, sometimes eye-poppingly, engrossing autobiography.must reading” ( The New York Times Book Review). After Bradlee took the helm in 1965, he and his reporters transformed the Post into one of the most influential and respected news publications in the world, reinvented modern investigative journalism, won eighteen Pulitzer Prizes, and redefined the way news is reported, published, and read. Ben Bradlees book, A Good Life: Newspapering and Other Adventures, is a warm, candid and entertaining look back over a remarkable career and personal life. The most important, glamorous, and famous newspaperman of modern times traces his path from Harvard to the battles of the South Pacific to the pinnacle of success at The Washington Post. A Good Life: Newspapering and Other Adventures Paperback Januby Ben BRADLEE (Author) 7 ratings Hardcover 6.48 19 Used from 3.52 4 New from 53.62 Paperback 135.53 7 Used from 7.51 1 New from 135.53 2 Collectible from 18.00 514 page paperback book on the biography of Ben Bradlee. A Good Life (English, Paperback, Bradlee Ben) Language: English Binding: Paperback Publisher: Simon & Schuster Genre: Biography & Autobiography ISBN. The classic New York Times bestselling memoir by legendary Executive Editor of The Washington Post Ben Bradlee-with a new foreword by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein and an afterword by Sally Quinn.

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