His leadership and investigative drive during the Watergate scandal led to the downfall of a president, and his challenge to the government over the right to publish the Pentagon Papers changed the course of American history.īradlee’s timeless memoir is a fascinating, irreverent, earthy, and revealing look at America and American journalism in the twentieth century - a “sassy, sometimes eye-poppingly, engrossing autobiography.must reading” ( The New York Times Book Review). «La verdad es la mejor de las defensa y toda la verdad es todavía mejor». memorial page for Ben Bradlee (), Find a Grave Memorial ID 137696843, citing Oak Hill Cemetery, Washington. Bradlee is vice president at large and former executive editor at The Washington Post. In 1995, his autobiography 'A Good Life' was published and in 2013, he was awarded The Presidential Medal of Freedom' from President Obama.

After Bradlee took the helm in 1965, he and his reporters transformed the Post into one of the most influential and respected news publications in the world, reinvented modern investigative journalism, won eighteen Pulitzer Prizes, and redefined the way news is reported, published, and read. The first thing that makes A GOOD LIFE a wonderful read is that it has been written by a wonderful writer. RT victoramaya: «Cuidado con las historias que, por cualquier razón, te gustaría que fuesen ciertas () Verifica () Y después comprúebalas de nuevo». Taking the helm of The Washington Post in 1965, Bradlee and his reporters redefined the way the news is reported, published, and read his leadership and investigative drive following the break-in at the Democratic National Committee led to the downfall of a president, and kept every president afterwards on his toes. From a A Good Life, Bradlees 1995 memoir. The most important, glamorous, and famous newspaperman of modern times traces his path from Harvard to the battles of the South Pacific to the pinnacle of success at The Washington Post. The classic New York Times bestselling memoir by legendary Executive Editor of The Washington Post Ben Bradlee-with a new foreword by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein and an afterword by Sally Quinn.

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