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The presidents vs. the press : the endless battle between the White House and the media -- from the founding fathers to fake news

Title: The presidents vs. the press : the endless battle between the White House and the media -- from the founding fathers to fake news / Harold Holzer.
Author: Holzer, Harold
Publication: [New York, New York] : Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2020]

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Description

xx, 554 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 24 cm

Summary

"An award-winning presidential historian offers an authoritative account of American presidents' attacks on our freedom of the press. "The FAKE NEWS media," Donald Trump has tweeted, "is not my enemy. It is the enemy of the American people." Never has our free press faced so great a threat. Yet the tension between presidents and journalists is as old as the republic itself. From George Washington to Trump, presidents have quarreled with, attacked, denigrated, and manipulated the fourth estate. Washington groused about his treatment in the newspapers, but his successor, John Adams, actually wielded his executive power to overturn press freedoms and prosecute critical reporters. Thomas Jefferson tapped a reporter to find dirt on his rival, Alexander Hamilton, only to have the reporter expose his own affair with his slave Sally Hemings. (Jefferson denied the reports out of hand-perhaps the first presidential cry of "fake news.") Andrew Jackson rewarded loyal newspapers with government contracts; Abraham Lincoln shuttered critical papers and imprisoned their editors without trial. FDR and JFK charmed journalists in order to protect their personal secrets, while Nixon cast the press as a public enemy for daring to investigate his own. In this remarkable new account, acclaimed scholar Harold Holzer guides readers through the clashes between chief executives and journalists, showing how these battles were waged and won, while girding us for a new fight to protect our nation's greatest institution: a free and functioning press"--

Alternative Title

Presidents versus the press

Subject

Genre/Form

Instructional and educational works.
History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages [449]-470) and index.

Contents

Part One. "Malignant industry" -- George Washington -- John Adams -- Thomas Jefferson -- Part Two. "A government of newspapers" -- Andrew Jackson -- Abraham Lincoln -- Part Three. From the bully pulpit to the fireside -- Theodore Roosevelt -- Woodrow Wilson -- Franklin D. Roosevelt -- Part Four. "Far greater public information" -- John F. Kennedy -- Lyndon B. Johnson -- Richard Nixon -- Part Five. "Truth is the glue" -- Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter -- Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush -- Bill Clinton -- George W. Bush -- Barack Obama -- Donald Trump.

Call Number

JFE 21-5929

ISBN

9781524745264
152474526X

LCCN

2020000679
40030076325

OCLC

1120976514

Author

Holzer, Harold, author.

Title

The presidents vs. the press : the endless battle between the White House and the media -- from the founding fathers to fake news / Harold Holzer.

Publisher

[New York, New York] : Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2020]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages [449]-470) and index.

Local Note

AUTH: HUNTER COLLEGE, CUNY.

Other Form:

Online version: Holzer, Harold, Presidents vs. the press New York : Dutton, 2020. 9781524745271 (DLC) 2020000680

Other Standard Identifier

40030076325

Research Call Number

JFE 21-5929

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