All the Presidents' Spokesmen: Spinning the News--White House Press Secretaries from Franklin D. Roosevelt to George W. Bush
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| Rating | : | 4.41 (534 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0275990982 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 296 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-05-18 |
| Language | : | English |
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Fantastic but for one thing I am a political journalist, and I looked forward to this book with great anticipation around Christmastime. The great aspects of the book are several in number. First of all, for anyone who has followed American politics, many of the people in Woody Klein's book are known quantities. That is to say, everyone has seen Ronald Ziegler evading and lying through his teeth, Marlon Fitzwater yucking it up, Ari Fleischer being combative and, tragically, Jim Brady lying in a puddle of blood on a sidewalk. Mr Klein's book fleshes all of these people out beyond what we already know from having seen the. Avid Reader said Great book by someone with experience. I really enjoyed this book. The author has clearly done the research and work to create a very readable, accessible book. I especially enjoyed how the history and evolution of the press secretary's role itself was traced, all the way from Roosevelt to the end of the Bush administration.And, as the other reviewer mentioned, the way the book was arranged, by challenges faced rather than simply chronologically really made the book even more interesting. It was good to see and hear the story from the other side things, so to speak. I did find myself a bit more sympathetic to what this very tough
This is the first volume to chronicle the story of the evolution of the symbiotic relationship between the presidential press secretaries and reporters who covered White House news during the terms of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Harry S. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Author Woody Klein has been both a reporter (for the Washington Post and the New York World-Telegram & Sun) and a press secretary himself to New York City Mayor John V. Bush), Dee Dee Myers (Clinton), Mike McCurry (Clinton), Joe Lockhart (Clinton), Ari Fleischer (Bush), Scott McClellan (Bush), and Tony Snow (Bush).. W. It started subtly in the Roosevelt administration and has been carefully honed with the transformation of the media in the information and technology revolution; he shows how it has been refined to the point where it is now recognized for what it is: slanting or packaging the news in favor of the president to make it acceptableeven desiredby the public. W. Twenty-three press secretaries are included. Johnson, Richard M. Lindsay, who ran for president in 1972. The book reveals how the presidential press secretaries' role has
Clark, Scholar of the Brown v. Kenneth B. WOODY KLEIN is a former Press Secretary to a New York City Mayor, a former award-winning investigative and political reporter for daily newspapers in Washington, D.C., and New York, and an award-winning historian. Board of Education Decision in 1954 (2004), winner of B
"Klein, former New York City Mayor John Lindsay's press secretary, explains how the role of presidential press secretary has evolved from the public relations directors known to FDR and Truman to the spinmeisters of recent administration….He organizes material by topics that include the Cold War, presidential scandals, domestic crises, and global issues….This book is a welcome marriage of well-researched scholarship and an engagingly fresh style. Recommended for public and academic communications collections." - Library Journal"All the President's Spokesme