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The Columnist - Leaks, Lies, and Libel in Drew Pearson's Washington (Hardcover)
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The Columnist - Leaks, Lies, and Libel in Drew Pearson's Washington (Hardcover)
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Long before Wikileaks and social media, the journalist Drew Pearson
exposed to public view information that public officials tried to
keep hidden. A self-professed "keyhole peeper", Pearson devoted
himself to revealing what politicians were doing behind closed
doors. From 1932 to 1969, his daily "Washington Merry-Go-Round"
column and weekly radio and TV commentary broke secrets, revealed
classified information, and passed along rumors based on sources
high and low in the federal government, while intelligence agents
searched fruitlessly for his sources. For forty years, this
syndicated columnist and radio and television commentator called
public officials to account and forced them to confront the facts.
Pearson's daily column, published in more than 600 newspapers, and
his weekly radio and television commentaries led to the censure of
two US senators, sent four members of the House to prison, and
undermined numerous political careers. Every president from
Franklin Roosevelt to Richard Nixon-and a quorum of Congress-called
him a liar. Pearson was sued for libel more than any other
journalist, in the end winning all but one of the cases. Breaking
secrets was the heartbeat of Pearson's column. His ability to
reveal classified information, even during wartime, motivated
foreign and domestic intelligence agents to pursue him. He played
cat and mouse with the investigators who shadowed him, tapped his
phone, read his mail, and planted agents among his friends. Yet
they rarely learned his sources. The FBI found it so fruitless to
track down leaks to the columnist that it advised agencies to
simply do a better job of keeping their files secret. Drawing on
Pearson's extensive correspondence, diaries, and oral histories,
The Columnist reveals the mystery behind Pearson's leaks and the
accuracy of his most controversial revelations.
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