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Inscribed on front endpaper: To Jane Eversen With best wishes, Mark HertsgaardClean text. Price unclipped ($22.50). Protected by Brodart dust jacket cover. Book and dust jacket in very good condition. Book has a water stain that is visible when viewing at the top end of book. Very top of pages for Appendix A & B showing minor staining. Stain is visible on dust jacket only from reserve side of jacket. During the Reagan years, the White House Press Corps has "functioned less as an independent than as a palace court press," according to Hertsgaard. Basing his arguments on hundreds of interviews with important administration leaders and reporters, Hertsgaard convincingly portrays the White House press as noncritical and sycophantic. As members of the same power elite that they write about, White House reporters more often than not agree with the President's policies. In addition, they have been reluctant to strongly criticize Reagan for fear of being cut off from the flow of information and of…
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On Bended Knee The Press and the Reagan Presidency
by Hertsgaard, Mark
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Masters of Deceit: The Story of Communism is America and How to Fight It
by Hoover, J. Edgar
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Fourth printing by the author the long-time FBI Director. Inscribed: To Kenneth M. Russell Best Wishes J. Edgar Hoover 3.19.59. Beautifully signed on first front page. Book in fine condition and dust jacket mildly toned with small tear in top of front, wrinkles in top of spine and tears in bottom and tears and folds on on top of back cover. Very dramatic picture of Hoover with hands folded on back cover. Clean text. Unclipped ($5.00). Protected by Brodart book cover. Hoover was the first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and served eight Presidents over his nearly 50 years in charge. Later in life and after his death, Hoover became a controversial figure as evidence of his secretive abuses of power began to surface. He was found to have routinely violated the very laws the FBI was charged with enforcing, to have used the FBI to harass political dissidents, to amass secret files for blackmailing high level politicians, and to collect evidence using vigilantism and many…
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