Description
Seymour Hersh has been the most important, famous, and controversial journalist in the United States for the last forty years. From his expose of the My Lai massacre in 1969 to his revelations about torture at Abu Ghraib prison in 2004, Hersh has consistently captured the public imagination, spurred policymakers to reform, and drawn the ire of presidents. From the streets of Chicago to the newsrooms of the most powerful newspapers and magazines in the United States, Seymour Hersh tells the story of this Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author. Robert Miraldi scrutinizes the scandals and national figures that have drawn Hersh's attention, from My Lai to Watergate, from John F. Kennedy to Henry Kissinger. This first-ever biography captures a stunningly successful career of important exposes and stunning accomplishments from a man whose unpredictable and quirky personality has turned him into an icon of American life and the unrivaled "scoop artist" of American journalism.
About the Author
ROBERT MIRALDI is an award-winning author, journalist, and columnist who has taught at the State University of New York for thirty years. In 2003 his biography, The Pen Is Mightier: The Muckraking Life of Charles Edward Russell, was named the best book in the country in journalism and mass communication. He is the author of two books and editor of three others. In 1992 he was a Fulbright Scholar, lecturing in the Netherlands. His writing on the First Amendment has won national awards. A PhD in American Studies, he teaches classes on media law, press history, and news reporting.
Reviews
"An important, long-overdue biography."-Kirkus
"Young, independent journalists-be it in newspapers or online-should take the time to read Scoop Artist and learn from Hersh's example. Robert Miraldi has given readers an excellent overview of Seymour Hersh-a true scoop artist."-Andrew W. Griffin, Red Dirt Report
"This book is important. . . . A graphic, fact-filled biography of Sy Hersh, probably America's most unstoppable investigative journalist. You may remember him as the man who discovered the My Lai massacre but Hersh has [also] spent a half-century bulldozing our government and others when they try to deceive the public and stain democracy. Robert Miraldi has dug out details you've never heard before. The clam of investigative reporters has been shrinking in the digital age. That's another reason this biography is important. This Hersh book is impressive."-Sydney Schanberg, Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign correspondent for the New York Times
"At last! Someone has cast a magnifying glass on the Sherlock Holmes of investigative reporters! Robert Miraldi's close-up examination of Seymour Hersh revels in the triumphs, controversies, and passions that have accompanied that reporter and unhinged Washington for fifty years. But more: Miraldi sheds light on what motivates a powerful bull-in-a-china-shop investigator and on how Hersh goes about finding all that exquisite porcelain to smash."-John Darnton, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and best-selling novelist
Book Information
ISBN 9781612344751
Author Robert Miraldi
Format Hardback
Page Count 448
Imprint Potomac Books Inc
Publisher Potomac Books Inc
About the Author
ROBERT MIRALDI is an award-winning author, journalist, and columnist who has taught at the State University of New York for thirty years. In 2003 his biography, The Pen Is Mightier: The Muckraking Life of Charles Edward Russell, was named the best book in the country in journalism and mass communication. He is the author of two books and editor of three others. In 1992 he was a Fulbright Scholar, lecturing in the Netherlands. His writing on the First Amendment has won national awards. A PhD in American Studies, he teaches classes on media law, press history, and news reporting.
Reviews
"An important, long-overdue biography."-Kirkus
"Young, independent journalists-be it in newspapers or online-should take the time to read Scoop Artist and learn from Hersh's example. Robert Miraldi has given readers an excellent overview of Seymour Hersh-a true scoop artist."-Andrew W. Griffin, Red Dirt Report
"This book is important. . . . A graphic, fact-filled biography of Sy Hersh, probably America's most unstoppable investigative journalist. You may remember him as the man who discovered the My Lai massacre but Hersh has [also] spent a half-century bulldozing our government and others when they try to deceive the public and stain democracy. Robert Miraldi has dug out details you've never heard before. The clam of investigative reporters has been shrinking in the digital age. That's another reason this biography is important. This Hersh book is impressive."-Sydney Schanberg, Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign correspondent for the New York Times
"At last! Someone has cast a magnifying glass on the Sherlock Holmes of investigative reporters! Robert Miraldi's close-up examination of Seymour Hersh revels in the triumphs, controversies, and passions that have accompanied that reporter and unhinged Washington for fifty years. But more: Miraldi sheds light on what motivates a powerful bull-in-a-china-shop investigator and on how Hersh goes about finding all that exquisite porcelain to smash."-John Darnton, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and best-selling novelist
Book Information
ISBN 9781612344751
Author Robert Miraldi
Format Hardback
Page Count 448
Imprint Potomac Books Inc
Publisher Potomac Books Inc
