Theodore H. White and Journalism as Illusion Hardcover - 1995
by Joyce Hoffmann
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In this study, Joyce Hoffmann examines a critical twenty-five-year period in the work of one of the most influential journalists of the twentieth century. Theodore H. White was already a celebrated reporter when Jacqueline Kennedy summoned him for an exclusive interview in the aftermath of her husband's assassination. With her help, White would preserve what the First Lady claimed had been John F. Kennedy's vision of the New Frontier as an incarnation of that wistful, romantic kingdom - Camelot. Over the years, friends and advisers to Kennedy declared that they had never heard the president speak of Camelot. But White's article, which ran in Life magazine, created a myth that still endures in the popular consciousness. That story was just one of many by Theodore White that had a lasting impact on the nation. As a correspondent for several of the country's most popular magazines, he covered the crucial events of the 1940s, '50s, and 60's. His best-selling book The Making of the President 1960 changed political reporting forever. A gifted and likable man with a remarkable skill for ingratiating himself with others, White earned the confidence of key political, military, and diplomatic leaders. First in the Far East, later in Europe, and finally in Washington, D.C., he became a confidant and adviser rather than an adversary to the figures he covered for the news, following a pattern set by elite journalists. Even as he played the impartial reporter, White kept secrets in order to maintain access to his important sources, and he occasionally allowed his subjects, including John F. Kennedy and Nelson Rockefeller, to make changes in his work before publication. Clinging to the illusion ofobjectivity, White - like other leading journalists in the postwar years - wrote about the world not as it was but as he believed it ought to be. Hoffmann relates the little-known episode in White's career when he intentionally obscured the truth about Chiang Kai-shek's corrupt and inept Nationalist government because he believed that undermining China's cause would be "a disservice to democracy".
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- Title Theodore H. White and Journalism as Illusion
- Author Joyce Hoffmann
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 208
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Missouri Press, Chicago, Illinois
- Date 1995-08
- ISBN 9780826210104 / 0826210104
- Weight 1.14 lbs (0.52 kg)
- Dimensions 9.56 x 6.33 x 0.8 in (24.28 x 16.08 x 2.03 cm)
- Ages 18 to 10 years
- Grade levels 13 - 5
- Library of Congress subjects Kennedy, John F, Journalists - United States
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 95014794
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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Citations
- Booklist, 07/01/1995, Page 1841
- Kirkus Reviews, 06/01/1995, Page 755
- Library Journal, 08/01/1995, Page 86
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