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作者： Helen Thomas 著
出 版 社： Scribner
出版时间： 1999-12-1字数：版次： 1页数： 415印刷时间： 2000/05/01开本：印次：纸张： 胶版纸I S B N ： 9780684868097包装： 平装内容简介
From Publishers Weekly
The veteran Washington reporter gives her account of instant history at the White House, the result of her fly-on-the-wall perch covering the administrations of every president since JFK for United Press International. Thomas is always on hand with a jaded eye, a cynical word and a probing question. And her story gives a view of the Fourth Estate surprisingly dissimilar to those that predominate today. In Thomass telling, the press is an institution, one of the many necessities of a democratic society. Gossip and scandal dont drive events, she asserts, as much as the desire to get the story and tell it first. Contained within her memoirs are remarkable recollections of Lyndon Johnson, who investigated the press as much as it investigated him; of Richard Nixon, who asks Thomas to say a prayer for me in one of Watergates darkest hours; of Martha Mitchell, a cabinet wife (of Nixons John Mitchell) who got sucked in and spat out by Beltway politics; and of First Ladies who offer birthday greetingsand others who close off their private lives. While the book is woefully thin on personal motivation and inner thoughts (one of the shortest chapters is on Thomass husband, former AP White House reporter Doug Cornell), it provides a sharp chronicle of the nations recent historyand of the crusade of women reporters to be considered the equal or better of their male counterparts.
From Kirkus Reviews
A straightforward, though not reflective, memoir from Thomas (Dateline: White House, 1975) on the best beat in the worldcovering every president from JFK to Clinton for United Press International. The daughter of Lebanese parents, Thomas grew up in Detroit. She came to her passion for journalism early, having written for her high school and college papers. After covering such beats as the Department of Justice and Capitol Hill, she was assigned to the White House in 1961. As the dean of the White House press corps and the person who delivers the final Thank you, Mr. President at press conferences, Thomas has become an instantly recognized fixture among the gaggle who report on the presidency. She has won the respectand often incurred the wrathof presidents, first ladies, and press secretaries for her bulldog tenacity and her unenthralled view of their work. Many of her best stories come when she sticks to her aim to provide an impressionistic view of these remarkable men and women (e.g., a scandal-scarred Richard Nixon startling her by asking for her prayers). But her assessments of presidents are conventional, and she is rarely critical of her professions shortcomings. For instance, she acknowledges that she enraged LBJ by revealing daughter Lucis wedding plans before the latter had the chance to discuss them with her father. She fails to see that such matters have nothing whatever to do with her aim to hold government officials accountable and to explain their actions and policies. Moreover, while proud of her firsts as a female reporter (e.g., the first woman recipient of the National Press Clubs Fourth Estate Award), she reveals little about what sustained her against male chauvinists of the media. A crisply written account of jousting between presidents and press, but without much insight into these two institutions that Thomas so clearly reveres. (16 pages b&w photos)
作者简介
HELEN THOMAS is the dean of the White House press corps. She is the recipient of more than twenty honorary degrees and in 1998 was the first recipient of a prize established in her name by the White House Correspondents Association: the Helen Thomas Lifetime Achievement Award. She is the author of one previous book, Dateline: White House, and lives in Washington, D.C.
目录
FOREWORD
1. Beginnings
2. Washington: The Early Years
3. A Little Rebellion Now and Then
4. New Frontiers
5. Where Everybody Knows My Name
6. Access Denied
7. "... And I'd Like a Follow-UP"
8. On the Road
9. On the Road
10. "She Told the Truth"
11. Doug
12. The Smallest Sorority
13. "A Splendid Misery"
14. Short Takes on Long Views
NOTES
INDEX
