Scandalmonger |
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Author:
| Safire, William |
Read by:
| McKeever, Larry |
ISBN: | 978-1-4417-8806-1 |
Publication Date: | Apr 2013 |
Publisher: | Blackstone Audio, Incorporated
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Book Format: | CD-Audio |
List Price: | USD $39.95 |
Book Description:
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The year is 1797. Meet James Thomson Callender, a radical newspaper editor secretly on the payroll of presidential hopeful Thomas Jefferson. As a political opposition forms in our fledgling republic, Callender is hard at work starting an equally rich American tradition: muckraking journalism. His sensational exposés of the private lives of public men will come to alter the course of history and may cost him his life. In a gripping and timely work of historical fiction, William Safire...
More DescriptionThe year is 1797. Meet James Thomson Callender, a radical newspaper editor secretly on the payroll of presidential hopeful Thomas Jefferson. As a political opposition forms in our fledgling republic, Callender is hard at work starting an equally rich American tradition: muckraking journalism. His sensational exposés of the private lives of public men will come to alter the course of history and may cost him his life. In a gripping and timely work of historical fiction, William Safire unveils the story behind the nation's first great political scandals.