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Ben Bradlee
December 14, 2017
Christian Lorentzen
The Post
Plays on Nostalgia for Nixon-Era Journalism
Steven Spielberg casts Ben Bradlee and Katharine Graham as heroes in a slick drama, despite their complicated ties to power.
March 23, 2017
Magazine
Leah Finnegan
The Media Should Become a True Opposition Party
If the press can relinquish its self-regard and battle Trump with Watergate-era gusto, perhaps it might stand for something of value to Americans.
October 24, 2014
Gregg Herken
Ben Bradlee and the Powerful Cold War Georgetown Set
October 22, 2014
Jeff Himmelman
"If You Spit in My Face, You Would Regret It”: Excerpts From the Feisty, Humble, Marvelous Letters of Ben Bradlee
February 4, 2010
Gabriel Sherman
Post Apocalypse
Inside the messy collapse of a great newspaper.
January 21, 2010
Donald Graham
Correspondence: Not Even a Molehill
May 21, 2007
The Editors
When Moguls Attack!
August 19, 1996
Michael Lewis
California, Here They Come
November 20, 1995
Michael Lewis
Ben Bradlee Had a Talent for a Specific Kind of Trouble
He sold himself as an outsider while he was in many ways the consummate insider.
August 4, 1986
Timothy Noah
The View From the Tube
May 5, 1979
Nicholas Lemann
The Power, The Glory, The Media, The Men, The Money, The Irony, The Symbols, America, The Meaning of It All
Oh What a Big Deal This Is.
May 7, 1977
Henry Fairlie
Profit Without Honor
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