Scandalmonger
by William Safire
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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About This Item
New York, NY: Simon and Schuster, Inc. Very Good. 2000. ADVANCED READING COPY (ARC). Soft Cover. 6" x 9 1/4" TRADE PAPERBACK In 1797, Thomson Callender, a newspaper editor secretely on the payroll of Presidential candidate Thomas Jefferson, is hard at work at muckraking journalism exposing the private lives of public men. Wear at edges, rubbed, black mark on bottom endpages. .
Synopsis
The bestselling historical novel that exposes the less than honorable side of our Founding Fathers by the Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist. In this gripping and timely work, William Safire unveils the story behind the nation's first great political scandals. James Thomson Callender, the "scandalmonger" of the title, is an ambitious gossip-peddling editor secretly hired by Thomas Jefferson as a political weapon. After carefully damaging Alexander Hamilton's reputation, thereby paving the way for Jefferson's success, Callender is shunned by the very politicians on whose behalf he was jailed for sedition. Broke and betrayed, Callender seeks revenge by exposing an illicit affair between Jefferson and his slave Sally Hemmings, an accusation that ultimately cost Callender his career and would not be authenticated for two centuries. By using actual letters, records, and notes to re-create dialogue and events, Scandalmonger embodies historical fiction at its best, politics at its most intriguing, and our Founding Fathers at their most notorious. For those who think that Washington sex scandals and lurid journalism are recent developments, this novel will be a revelation, for Safire shows how media intrusiveness into private lives-and politicians' cool manipulation of the press-are practices as old as the Constitution.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Long Beach Books Inc.
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 012145
- Title
- Scandalmonger
- Author
- William Safire
- Format/Binding
- Soft Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- ADVANCED READING COPY (ARC)
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster, Inc
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 2000
- Keywords
- ADVANCE, UNCORRECTED, READER, S, PROOF/NOVEL
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