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Feldstein, Mark. Poisoning the Press: Richard Nixon, Jack Anderson, and the Rise of Washington's Scandal Culture. Farrar. Sept. 2010. c.480p, illus, bibliog, index. ISBN 978-0-374-23530-7. $30. POL SCI
The long feud between Richard Nixon and muckraking journalist Jack Anderson, told here in skunk v. skunk detail, was the opening salvo in the ongoing American war between the presidency and the media. Feldstein (media & public affairs, George Washington Univ.)--formerly a college intern for Anderson and network TV correspondent-includes more than 200 interviews he conducted in recent years, which show how Anderson ruled the press from his "Washington-Merry-Go-Pound" column …