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Theodore H. White and journalism as illusion / Joyce Hoffmann.
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Hoffmann, Joyce
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English
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Columbia : University of Missouri Press, ©1995.
Description
x, 194 p. ; 24 cm.
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PN4874.W517 H64 1995
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Subject(s)
Journalists
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United States
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Biography
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United States
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Politics and government
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1961-1963
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Historiography
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White, Theodore H. (Theodore Harold) 1915-1986
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Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald) 1917-1963
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Biographies
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Summary note
"In this study, Joyce Hoffmann examines a critical twenty-five-year period in the work of one of the most influential journalists of the twentieth century. Theodore H. White was already a celebrated reporter when Jacqueline Kennedy summoned him for an exclusive interview in the aftermath of her husband's assassination. With her help, White would preserve what the First Lady claimed had been John F. Kennedy's vision of the New Frontier as an incarnation of that wistful, romantic kingdom - Camelot. Over the years, friends and advisers to Kennedy declared that they had never heard the president speak of Camelot. But White's article, which ran in Life magazine, created a myth that still endures in the popular consciousness." "That story was just one of many by Theodore White that had a lasting impact on the nation. As a correspondent for several of the country's most popular magazines, he covered the crucial events of the 1940s, '50s, and 60's. His best-selling book The Making of the President 1960 changed political reporting forever." "A gifted and likable man with a remarkable skill for ingratiating himself with others, White earned the confidence of key political, military, and diplomatic leaders. First in the Far East, later in Europe, and finally in Washington, D.C., he became a confidant and adviser rather than an adversary to the figures he covered for the news, following a pattern set by elite journalists. Even as he played the impartial reporter, White kept secrets in order to maintain access to his important sources, and he occasionally allowed his subjects, including John F. Kennedy and Nelson Rockefeller, to make changes in his work before publication."
"Clinging to the illusion of objectivity, White - like other leading journalists in the postwar years - wrote about the world not as it was but as he believed it ought to be. Hoffmann relates the little-known episode in White's career when he intentionally obscured the truth about Chiang Kai-shek's corrupt and inept Nationalist government because he believed that undermining China's cause would be "a disservice to democracy.""--Jacket.
Notes
Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--New York University.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-186) and index.
Contents
The birth of a journalist
The making of a Time man
The making of a consensus journalist
The making of a mythical President
The making of Camelot.
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ISBN
0826210104 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
9780826210104 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
LCCN
95014794
OCLC
32347352
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