A Good Life : Newspapering and Other Adventures
by Ben Bradlee


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Ben Bradlee's life is mostly the story of how an ordinary newspaper became a great one. When the paper in question is The Washington Post, the story is fraught with politics. As a cub reporter, Bradlee became good friends with fellow Harvard and Navy man, John Kennedy, and Bradlee admits that in those days he suppressed stories that would have politically hurt his buddy. But a few years later, he found the strength to withstand pressure from social contacts in the Johnson and Nixon administrations (the trouble areas were primarily the Pentagon Papers and Watergate). That sea change is a big piece of American political history.

 



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