Without Fear Or Favor: The New York Times And Its Times
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Few institutions have shaped the American public consciousness as profoundly as The New York Times, and Harrison E. Salisbury's Without Fear or Favor: The New York Times and Its Times presents a sweeping, unvarnished chronicle of the newspaper's most defining moments, controversies, and personalities. A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and longtime Times correspondent himself, Salisbury brings rare insider authority to this narrative, tracing the paper's evolution from its founding principles — encapsulated in Adolph S. Ochs's famous pledge to deliver the news impartially, without fear or favor — through its battles with government censorship, its landmark publication of the Pentagon Papers, and the fierce internal power struggles that shaped its editorial soul. Salisbury writes with the precision of a seasoned reporter and the sweep of a historian, illuminating how a single metropolitan newspaper became a mirror for the nation's triumphs, failures, and moral reckonings. This work is as much a biography of American democracy as it is of a great institution, arguing persuasively that the fate of a free press and the fate of a free society are inextricably bound. For anyone who has ever wondered what truly goes on behind the headlines, this account will leave them questioning everything they thought they knew about the paper of record.
Author: Harrison E. Salisbury
Format: Paperback
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Few institutions have shaped the American public consciousness as profoundly as The New York Times, and Harrison E. Salisbury's Without Fear or Favor: The New York Times and Its Times presents a sweeping, unvarnished chronicle of the newspaper's most defining moments, controversies, and personalities. A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and longtime Times correspondent himself, Salisbury brings rare insider authority to this narrative, tracing the paper's evolution from its founding principles — encapsulated in Adolph S. Ochs's famous pledge to deliver the news impartially, without fear or favor — through its battles with government censorship, its landmark publication of the Pentagon Papers, and the fierce internal power struggles that shaped its editorial soul. Salisbury writes with the precision of a seasoned reporter and the sweep of a historian, illuminating how a single metropolitan newspaper became a mirror for the nation's triumphs, failures, and moral reckonings. This work is as much a biography of American democracy as it is of a great institution, arguing persuasively that the fate of a free press and the fate of a free society are inextricably bound. For anyone who has ever wondered what truly goes on behind the headlines, this account will leave them questioning everything they thought they knew about the paper of record.