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100 1  Ritchie, Donald A.,|d1945-|eauthor. 
245 14 The columnist :|bleaks, lies, and libel in Drew Pearson's 
       Washington /|cDonald A. Ritchie. 
264  1 New York, NY :|bOxford University Press,|c[2021] 
300    xi, 367 pages :|billustrations ;|c25 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-353) and 
       index. 
505 0  Introduction: the man who broke secrets -- Launching the 
       column -- Nothing to fear -- Breaking secrets in wartime -
       - Drew Pearson's leg men -- Just mild about Harry -- The 
       case against Congress -- Battling McCarthyism -- Disliking
       Ike -- Between Kennedy and Khrushchev -- Lyndon's lackey? 
       -- Prisoner of the merry-go-round -- Epilogue: a 
       muckraker's legacy. 
520    "In the Washington Merry-Go-Round, a nationally syndicated
       newspaper column that appeared in hundreds of papers from 
       1932 to 1969, as well as on weekly radio and television 
       programs, the investigative journalist Drew Pearson 
       revealed news that public officials tried to suppress. He 
       disclosed policy disputes and political spats, exposed 
       corruption, attacked bigotry, and promoted social justice.
       He pumped up some political careers and destroyed others. 
       Presidents, prime ministers, and members of Congress 
       repeatedly called him a liar, and he was sued for libel 
       more often than any other journalist, but he won most of 
       his cases by proving the accuracy of his charges. Pearson 
       dismissed most official news as propaganda and devoted his
       column to reporting what officials were doing behind 
       closed doors. He broke secrets-even in wartime-and 
       revealed classified information. Fellow journalists 
       credited him with knowing more dirt about more people in 
       Washington than even the FBI and compared his efforts to 
       Daniel Ellsberg with the Pentagon Papers or Edward Snowden
       with WikiLeaks, except that he did it daily. The Columnist
       examines how Pearson managed to uncover secrets so 
       successfully and why government efforts to find his 
       sources proved so unsuccessful. Drawing on a half century 
       of archival evidence it assesses his contributions as a 
       muckraker by verifying or refuting both his accusations 
       and his accusers"--|cProvided by publisher. 
600 10 Pearson, Drew,|d1897-1969. 
600 17 Pearson, Drew,|d1897-1969.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00043756 
648  7 1900-1999|2fast 
650  0 Journalists|zUnited States|vBiography. 
650  7 Journalists.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00984188 
650  7 Politics and government.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01919741 
651  0 United States|xPolitics and government|y20th century. 
651  7 United States.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01204155 
655  7 Biographies.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01919896 
776 08 |iOnline version:|aA. Ritchie, Donald,|tThe columnist|dNew
       York : Oxford University Press, 2021.|z9780190067601
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