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<p> Fearsomely alive...Its depiction of Nixon and Anderson as the King Kong and Godzilla of sleaze, paranoia and dirty tricks [is] a master class in gutter politics. --Dwight Garner, The New York Times <p> Detailing Nixon's utter obsession with Anderson... Poisoning the Press stunned me....It may transform the muckraker's image. --Howard Kurtz, The Washington Post <p> Feldstein mines fresh treasures from the president's trove of secret Oval Office tapes....He nails the baleful Nixon-Anderson legacy. --Edward Kosner, The Wall Street Journal <p> Superb. --Jack Shafer, Slate <p> A gripping, well-told narrative history...its punch is tinged with a romantic melancholy. -- The Nation <p> Provocative...A fresh and sometimes startling look at the powerful muckraking journalist and the politician he so often pursued. -- The Seattle Times <p> A furiously paced real-life thriller, Mark Feldstein's multi-decade history works as both gripping drama and darkly funny analysis..

<p>&#8220;The rise and fall of Jack Anderson is a newspaper story that needed to be told, as Mark&#160;Feldstein has done brilliantly. But there is an even more compelling saga tucked inside this book&#8212;Anderson versus President Richard Nixon. Feldstein has given us the disgraced Nixon at his best and worst, and in his own words&#8212;scatological, criminal, paranoid, and willing to do anything to rid himself of Anderson&#8217;s sensational reporting.&#8221; &#8212;Seymour Hersh, author of Chain of Command <br> &#8220;Mark Feldstein&#8217;s compelling reconstruction of the Richard Nixon-Jack Anderson conflict is a groundbreaking history of modern political skulduggery and media scandalmongering. There are no heroes in Feldstein&#8217;s book&#8212;only the ugly truth about two men who had a lasting impact on American politics and journalism. Poisoning the Press is required reading for anyone interested in the current world of Washington politics and media.&#8221; &#8212;Robert Da

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Mark Feldstein, who teaches media and public affairs at George Washington University, was an investigative correspondent for CNN, ABC, and other news outlets for two decades, earning dozens of journalism awards, including an Edward R. Murrow Broadcasting Award, an Alfred I. Dupont-Columbia University Award, and two George Foster Peabody Awards. He received a bachelor's degree from Harvard and a doctorate from the University of North Carolina.

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