All the Presidents' Spokesmen: Spinning the News, White House Press Secretaries from Franklin D. Roosevelt to George W. Bush
- ISBN-10
- 0275990982
- ISBN-13
- 9780275990985
- Category
- Business & Economics / General
- Pages
- 249
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2008
- Publisher
- Greenwood Publishing Group
- Author
- Woody Klein
Description
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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