Richard Nixon, Watergate, and the Press: A Historical Retrospective

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It's time to revisit Watergate. In this compelling reexamination, Liebovich draws extensively from newly available sources, including recently released Nixon Oval Office tapes, FBI reports, and personal reminiscences of cover-up leader John Dean. Liebovich sheds new light on the Nixon administration's extensive foul play, zeal to battle and manipulate the press, scandalous miring, and eventual political disgrace. After detailing the nation's news media coverage of the Watergate debacle and the ensuing breakup of American politics, Liebovich recounts the scandal's long-lasting, corrosive effect on presidential and popular politics. Scholars and students of the media and latter-20th-century American political malaise will be provoked and persuaded by Liebovich's argument that much of the public's cynicism toward the press, the president, and politics stems from the bitter battles-fought in the White House, on the front pages, and on television screens-between the press and Nixon's administration. The book focuses on the fight against a press perceived as hostile to the President and charts how the nation's major newspapers and magazines covered the unfolding scandal. Newly released sources show how Nixon and his advisors immersed themselves so deeply in a maze of deception and mistrust that none involved could extricate themselves, creating a political tragedy that haunts us to this day.

The Lessons of Watergate: thirty years on.(Book Review): An article from: Presidential Studies Quarterly

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The Lessons of Watergate: thirty years on.(Book Review): An article from: Presidential Studies Quarterly
Michael A. Genovese
Manufacturer: Center for the Study of the Presidency
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This digital document is an article from Presidential Studies Quarterly, published by Center for the Study of the Presidency on June 1, 2004. The length of the article is 1471 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: The Lessons of Watergate: thirty years on.(Book Review)
Author: Michael A. Genovese
Publication: Presidential Studies Quarterly (Refereed)
Date: June 1, 2004
Publisher: Center for the Study of the Presidency
Volume: 34 Issue: 2 Page: 455(3)

Article Type: Book Review

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Richard Nixon, Watergate, and the Press: A Historical Retrospective

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Richard Nixon, Watergate, and the Press: A Historical Retrospective
Louis W. Liebovich
Manufacturer: Praeger Publishers
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000ORRHT6

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When Granny Judith asks twelve-year-old Christmas John to row Molly, cook’s daughter, across the river from Kentucky to the Free State of Ohio, he’s terrified. Bravely, he begins the first of many journeys. Each time he returns, Granny Judith asks what color clothing his passenger wore, for she’s had a dream-vision and is making a quilt from squares of these “freedom colors.” When there are only two squares left, she tells him, “Dream says we got to get ourselves over the river, ’cause the danger’s gonna grow awful.”

This compelling story, powerfully and poignantly illustrated, is a memorable celebration of courage, hope, and unselfish love.

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A book that will inspire you!.......2007-01-25

Night Boat to Freedom is a wonderful story about the Underground Railroad, as told from the point of view of two "ordinary" people who made it possible.

Beyond that, it is a story about dignity and courage, and a devotion to the ideal of freedom.

My eight year old son loved the book, and it served as a starting point for us to examine the issues of slavery, freedom, segregation, and integration.

A great read with illustrations that inspire, primary schools would do well to include it on their reading lists.

Gorgeous art, lyrical story.......2006-12-05

Christmas John is 12 when he begins rowing slaves across the Ohio River from Kentucky to freedom. His Granny Judith has one request--what color did the passenger wear? Whatever color he tells her, she sews into a dazzling quilt. And it's all the more poignant after she relates how she was lured onto a slave ship in Africa with patches of bright, red cloth.

But red will also be a lucky hue. When there's only two more spaces left on the quilt, she sews John a crimson shirt. But the dogs are on his scent, and the owners are out with guns ... and ... and ... you have to read the rest yourself.

The illustrator goes heavy on realism, the better to layer all the details, the symbols, the textures and shades and shadows of slavery. Lewis makes sure we won't miss a line on Granny Judith's careworn face or the creeping gloom of the predawn river.

But the real treat is Raven's suspenseful, atmospheric text, told in first person from Christmas John's perspective. The tone is reverant, even hushed, and heavy with imagery and layered meaning:

"Then Granny Judith spoke so low even the dark couldn't hear her. 'But now, Christmas John, we got a chance to learn the color of freedom!'"

Though the story's fictional, the author describes in a lengthy end note how she delved into the Slave Narrative Collection, compiled by the government during the Great Depression, for inspiration. The individuals are based on two real people who likely never met, but whose histories have been stitched together for the sake of one seamless narrative.

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It's OK...I think
Bounty Hunter & Bail Enforcer
The Bible of books for Bounty Hunters.

Bounty Hunter
Bob Burton
Manufacturer: Paladin Press
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0873642961

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Like his Wild West counterpart, the modern bountyman tracks the bail fugitive, arrests him and surrenders him to the police - all for the love of money. Learn how to talk your way into a bondsman's confidence, acquire the necessary tools, track and subdue the fugitive and more. With an estimated 6 million bail jumpers walking the streets, bounty hunting can be a goldmine for the smart and the daring. Includes a state-by-state list of the laws of bounty hunting.

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It's OK...I think.......2005-12-06

I'm no lawyer, so I don't know whether he's legit, but the book didn't meet my expectations. If Bob's telling the truth, then bounty hunting is not something I want to do.

It did contain some interesting stories, though.

Bounty Hunter & Bail Enforcer.......2005-08-12

This guy is an absolute fraud who has gone unchecked for far to many years. If he picks up one skip, he'll tell you he picked up 100. Many of his stories aren't even his, rather they are the stories of his old drinking buddy Ralph "PaPa" Thorson's. Someone needs to blow the lid on this guy's pack of lies. He has built his name on an unknowing public who are at a total loss for knowledge to know who phony he is. He's a hypocrite and a criminal himself and if the main stream media would take the time to check him out, they would drop him like a hot potato. It takes a Bail Bondsman to know what is legit in the business and I can fill a room with card tote'n money on the line Bail Bondsmen who know what a phony this guy really is. He boasts a long list of names of people and news media who call on him as their 'expert witness' but I can say with all certainty they have not done their homework because if the did, they'd know this guy would be considered as poison in the media. He's a criminal on the run himself and he knows exactly what I'm talking about. I'm taking you down Bob L Burton, or is that Bob V Burton or perhaps it is Bob E Burton. I guess it depends on what state has the warrant out for your arrest. Oh, are you aware Identity Theft can come back to haunt you. And how is it you share the same social security number with two other people, one of which is female. Your little kingdom is about to fall Bobby.

The Bible of books for Bounty Hunters........1998-05-28

115 pages of essential information for anyone interested in Fugitive Recovery. Put your head together with the two, "Best Known", modern Bounty men in the U.S. Bob Burton and Ralph "Papa" Thorson as they pass on their secrets to you and I, that we might "Learn to Stay Alive."

Voices of the Fugitives: Runaway Slave Stories and Their Fictions of Self-Creation

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Voices of the Fugitives: Runaway Slave Stories and Their Fictions of Self-Creation
Sterling Lecater Bland , Of Being , and Nothingness: Caliban's Reprise
Manufacturer: Praeger Paperback
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ASIN: 0275967077

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African American fugitive slave narratives are receiving growing amounts of attention for their literary and historical value. This book examines the techniques the slave narrative writers used to authorize and rhetorically create themselves in their writings. By examining such issues as voice and identity formation, the volume demonstrates how identity may be seen as a cultural fabrication. Former slave narrators used a series of masking and doubling techniques to address their experiences as African Americans. This book crosses the boundaries between literary criticism and historical study by examining the tensions between generic conventions and the impulses that created and reinforced them. The introduction and opening chapter offer clear and accessible discussions of the social, political, cultural, and literary conditions influencing the slave narrative genre. Subsequent chapters are built on this theoretical framework and present close analytical readings of The Confessions of Nat Turner, Frederick Douglass's Narrative and My Bondage and My Freedom, Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, and Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom, by William and Ellen Craft. The volume probingly traces the relationship between rhetorical self-creation and social ideology to show how that relationship was mediated within the fugitive slave narrative genre.

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The Fugitive Self
Seymour Kleinberg
Manufacturer: Xlibris Corporation
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ASIN: 1401049672

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Shadow Self (Dear Diary Series #7)
Cheryl Zach
Manufacturer: Berkley
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ASIN: 0425177726
Release Date: 2000-12-12

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Emma Carter doesn't know what to think when she finds a 20-year-old photo of a girl who looks just like her. Is it it just a coincidence? A practical joke? Or is there something about her family's past they want to keep secret?

Eternidad Fugitiva/ Fugitive Eternity (Artes Visuales)

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Eternidad Fugitiva/ Fugitive Eternity (Artes Visuales)

Manufacturer: Turner
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The Poorhouse Fugitives: Self-Taught Poets and Poetry in Victorian Britain

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The Poorhouse Fugitives: Self-Taught Poets and Poetry in Victorian Britain

Manufacturer: Carcanet Pr
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ASIN: 0856357065

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A reasonable adventure
Kept my son fascinated for two days
Moving and exciting story of boy's escape from slavery
Exciting adventure story!
Searching for Freedom--A Young Slave in Old Charleston

Seaward Born
Lea Wait
Manufacturer: Margaret K. McElderry
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ASIN: 068984719X

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Thirteen-year-old Michael knows he is lucky. Few slaves in 1805 Charleston are where they want to be. But Michael works on the docks and ships in Charleston Harbor, close to the seas he longs to sail.

Life seems good. But then his protective mistress dies and Michael's world changes. His friend Jim encourages him to "steal himself"; to run. Michael is torn.

Mama always taught him, "to get along, you go along." But Papa wanted him to be free. "You see a possibility, you take it....A fish you pull in as a free man tastes ten times sweeter than a fish you catch for a master." Now Mama and Papa are both dead, and Michael must decide alone.

Does he dare risk everything for a chance at freedom in some unknown place? If he and Jim are caught, he will have lost everything. But if he stays -- is staying safe worth staying a slave?

How Michael makes his decision to flee seaward to freedom is the heart of this moving and dramatic story set in an America where slavery is a way of life in the South, and the journey to freedom one of immense courage and mortal danger.

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A reasonable adventure.......2007-01-01

This book about the slave trade will intrigue the young reader. My daughter read this for her 5th grade FCAT studies and I was impressed with her reaction to the story. Invariably children find readinga chore. However, this is one book that she read quite speedily. The story revolves around a young boy who decides to break out of slavery. The reader can ascertain much in the way of social and ethical challenges from this particular genre.

Kept my son fascinated for two days.......2003-06-25

My son is 12, and not usually an eager reader, but Seaward Born really kept him reading. He said "it was real!" and he loved that the main character not only chose his own destiny -- he chose his own name! Definitely worth checking out.

Moving and exciting story of boy's escape from slavery.......2003-06-12

I read this book with my two grandchildren, ages 8 and ten, and they were fascinated by the story -- and so was I. Author Wait knows her period and her characters, and brings to life the story of a boy who is torn between what he knows and loves, and what the consequences of inaction will be. My grandchildren loved the unhesitating details of what it must have been like to hide in a barrel for days in a ship's hold ... and the chapter on Michael's memories of what his mother had told him of her Middle Passage story are moving and just detailed enough to be fascinating to any age. I would definitely recommend this book
to anyone, of any age -- and certainly to a grandparent wanting to find a way to talk to children about slavery.

Exciting adventure story!.......2003-06-02

I didn't know too much about life in 1806 or slavery, but I really enjoyed reading Michael's story! He had to decide if he wanted to risk his life to try to be free. He had narrow escapes. I really liked the parts where he was escaping, and where he decided to change his name to Noah. I really liked this book!

Searching for Freedom--A Young Slave in Old Charleston.......2003-06-02

Michael, born a slave in Charleston, wishes more than anything to be able to work on the docks, and maybe some day work on a boat. When his master dies, his wish is granted, and he goes to the docks. While there, he learns about the idea of freedom. It's a scary thought, and it takes some gumption for Michael, who renames himself Noah, to think of trying to gain freedom for himself. What will he have to endure to become free, and will he succeed? He has already lost his family and his security with a good master. What else must he lose?

Lea Wait, who lives in Maine, has a good eye for background detail. Her vivid scenes of Charleston in 1805-6 are very believable. The lives and terrors of slaves born there, and what they know about the dreadful ships on which their people arrived in America are gripping. Noah, who is a minor character in Wait's earlier young adult novel, "Stopping to Home" manages to meet those friends again. "Seaward Born" is the second book in what will become more stories for young people about others their age who find themselves adrift in a hostile world, but who eventually find true homes.

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Jonas has lived all of his thirteen years on a farm in Missouri, and even though he hears whispers about freedom, he thinks he’ll never try to escape. He knows what happens to slaves who attempt to run away. Besides, Master William has promised to make Jonas his personal manservant, and Jonas thinks fine suits and special privileges sound like a dream. But this dream is put on hold when, in 1859, Master William’s good-for-nothing son, Percy, decides to seek his fortune in the Kansas Territory gold fields, taking Jonas along as his cook and caretaker. Although Percy is a brutal master, Jonas is surprised to find that the other members of the wagon train don’t hold his views about slavery. Jonas even befriends a doctor’s daughter, who teaches him how to read. And with each word Jonas learns, he discovers that there are much bigger dreams a boy can have than being another man’s servant.

In this unforgettable novel, Maurine F. Dahlberg tells the story of a slave coming to understand his own worth.

The time of the fugitive; from ritual to self-discovery

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The time of the fugitive; from ritual to self-discovery
Carlo A. Weber
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ASIN: B00005WYJP

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