All the presidents' spokesmen; spinning the news--White House press secretaries from Franklin D. Roosevelt to George W. Bush.

9780275990985

All the presidents' spokesmen; spinning the news--White House press secretaries from Franklin D. Roosevelt to George W. Bush.

Klein, Woody.

Praeger

2008

249 pages

$49.95

Hardcover

E176

Klein (a former reporter and former Press Secretary to New York Mayor John V. Lindsay) profiles the office of the White House Press Secretary as it has existed from 1941 to 2007. He takes a thematic approach to the topic, examining how select press secretaries have performed during times of hot war, cold war, presidential scandal, domestic crisis, and domestic controversy, and in dealing with global issues such as energy and global warming.

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