All the Presidents' Spokesmen
Spinning the News--White House Press Secretaries from Franklin D. Roosevelt to George W. Bush
Woody Klein
0-275-99098-2/978-0-275-99098-5
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Explains how White House press secretaries have for decades developed the art of shaping the news in their daily press briefings to reporters in favor of the president—the highly sophisticated, complex communications strategy popularly known as spin.
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All the President's Spokesmen, is the first to explore in such breadth the complex and often tense relationship between presidents, presidential press secretaries and the eporters who cover the White House....This is wonderful stuff if you're interested in such things and you won't hear any of it at the next press conference.
—Westport News
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Klein, former New York City Mayor John Lindsay's press secretary, explains how the role of presidential press secretary has evolved from the public relations directors known to FDR and Truman to the spinmeisters of recent administration....He organizes material by topics that include the Cold War, presidential scandals, domestic crises, and global issues....This book is a welcome marriage of well-researched scholarship and an engagingly fresh style. Most sections are well documented, and there is an extensive bibliography. Recommended for public and academic communications collections.
—Library Journal
About the Author
WOODY KLEIN
is a former Press Secretary to a New York City Mayor, a former award-winning investigative and political reporter for daily newspapers in Washington, D.C., and New York, and an award-winning historian. He is the author of
Westport, Connecticut: The Story of a New England Town's Rise to Prominence
, winner of the Connecticut League of History Organizations' Book Award
Toward Humanity and Justice: The Writings of Dr. Kenneth B. Clark, Scholar of the Brown v. Board of Education
Decision in 1954
(2004), winner of Best Book of the Year award from the Connecticut Press Club in 2006
d
Liberties Lost: The Endangered Legacy of the ACLU
(2006). He also authored
Let in the Sun
(1962) and
Lindsay's Promise
(1970).
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