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1) Truth
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (125 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The last days of news anchor Dan Rather and producer Mary Mapes time at CBS News after they broadcasted what became a highly controversial news report about George W. Bush and his military service.
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"Guardians of Liberty explores the essential and basic American ideal of freedom of the press. Allowing the American press to publish-even if what they're reporting is contentious-without previous censure or interference by the federal government was so important to the Founding Fathers that they placed a guarantee in the First Amendment to the Constitution. Citing numerous examples from America's past, from the American Revolution to the Vietnam...
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Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xx, 554 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Description
"An award-winning presidential historian offers an authoritative account of American presidents' attacks on our freedom of the press. "The FAKE NEWS media," Donald Trump has tweeted, "is not my enemy. It is the enemy of the American people." Never has ourfree press faced so great a threat. Yet the tension between presidents and journalists is as old as the republic itself. From George Washington to Trump, presidents have quarreled with, attacked,...
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Publisher
Verso
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
354 pages ; 25 cm
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Nils Melzer's compelling investigation shows how, through secrecy, impunity and, crucially, public indifference, unchecked power risks annihilating Western democracy and the rule of law. The case of Julian Assange could set a chilling precedent.
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Publisher
Threshold Editions
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
ix, 358 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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"From the editor in chief of Breitbart News, a firsthand account of how the establishment media became weaponized against Donald Trump and his supporters on behalf of the political left"--
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As a key player during the election campaign and transition, and Donald Trump's press secretary for the first seven months in the White House, Sean Spicer found himself on the front line between Trump and the press - regularly jousting with the media and having to explain the President's policy decisions and comments to America and the world. The Briefing taps into Spicer's first-hand experience in the front row of the Trump campaign and presidency,...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A volatile story about a Washington, D.C. political reporter who writes an explosive story about a government scandal in which she reveals the name of a covert CIA agent. Unexpectedly finding herself behind bars, she struggles to maintain her principles and relationship with her family when she refuses to divulge her source. Inspired by true events.
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"From his position at the center of the media bubble, and drawing on his long and sometimes antagonistic relationship with President Trump that dates back to Trump's reigning days in New York real estate, Kurtz explains how American journalism has gotten to this point - and what's really happening in the White House's all-out-war with the mainstream media."--Amazon.com.
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Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
368 pages cm
Description
"An account like no other from the White House reporter who has known President Trump for more than 25 years. We have never seen a president like this...norm-breaking, rule-busting, dangerously reckless to some and an overdue force for change to others. One thing is clear: We are witnessing the reshaping of the presidency. Jonathan Karl brings us into the White House in a powerful book unlike any other on the Trump administration. He's known and covered...
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
262 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
Description
"A candid, riveting account of the Trump White House, on the front lines and behind the scenes. Sarah Huckabee Sanders served as White House Press Secretary for President Donald J. Trump from 2017 to 2019. A trusted confidante of the President, Sanders advised him on everything from press and communications strategy to personnel and policy. She was at the President's side for two and a half years, battling with the media, working with lawmakers and...
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
354 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
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"From CNN's veteran Chief White House Correspondent Jim Acosta, an explosive, first-hand account of the dangers he faces reporting on the current White House while fighting on the front lines in President Trump's war on truth."--Amazon.com.
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
xxix, 733 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
Examines Abraham Lincoln's relationship with the press, arguing that he used such intimidation and manipulation techniques as closing down dissenting newspapers, pampering favoring newspaper men, and physically moving official telegraph lines.
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A dynamic history of the muckracking press and the first decade of the Progressive era as told through the intense friendship of Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft--a close relationship that strengthens both men before it ruptures in 1912 when they engage in a brutal fight for the presidential nomination that cripples the progressive wing of the Republican Party, causing Democrat Woodrow Wilson to be elected, and changing the country's history....
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"Stephanie Grisham rose from being a junior press wrangler on the Trump campaign in 2016 to assuming top positions in the administration as White House press secretary and communications director, while at the same time acting as First Lady Melania Trump's communications director and eventually chief of staff. Few members of the Trump inner circle served longer or were as close to the first family as Stephanie Grisham, and few had her unique insight...
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
xxxv, 551 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
Veil is the story of the covert wars that were waged in Central America, Iran and Libya in a secretive atmosphere and became the centerpieces and eventual time bombs of American foreign policy in the 1980s.
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