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| Libro | Biblioteca de Mayagüez Colección General mb | E 842 .B69 1975 (Navegar estantería(Abre debajo)) | Disponible | 50000001970622 |
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"Give[s] us a good idea of what Jack Kennedy was really like-probably as good an idea as anything likely to be written about him [him]. . . . Highly informal and readable." -R. L. Tobin, Saturday Review
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Benjamin C. Bradlee was born on August 26, 1921 in Boston, Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard University in 1942. Before becoming a reporter and editor at Newsweek and the Washington Post, he worked for the State Department in Paris. As a reporter in the 1950s, he became close friends with then-Senator John F. Kennedy. In 1960, he toured with both Kennedy and Richard Nixon in their presidential campaigns. He later wrote a book, Conversations with Kennedy, recounting their relationship during those years.He was the executive editor of the Washington Post from 1968 to 1991. In 1971, The New York Times and the Post successfully challenged the government over the right to publish the Pentagon Papers. One year later, he oversaw the Post's Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the Watergate affair. The Post received 18 Pulitzers during his tenure.
His other books include A Good Life: Newspapering and Other Adventures and A Life's Work: Fathers and Sons written with his son Quinn Bradlee. In 2013, he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom. He died of natural causes on October 21, 2014 at the age of 93.
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