Confessions of a Muckraker: The Inside Story of Life in Washington During the Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson Years

Confessions of a Muckraker: The Inside Story of Life in Washington During the Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson Years
ISBN-10
0345260252
ISBN-13
9780345260253
Category
Journalists
Pages
416
Language
English
Published
1980
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Authors
Jack Anderson, James Boyd

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Those were the realms, were they not, that Drew Pearson moved in, and the suggestion that I seek him out as employer and teacher gave me a concrete objective. Ahead of me stretched an indefinite term of Army service, for I was drafted ...

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