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Scandalmonger

作者: William Safire
出版商: New York : Simon & Schuster, ©2000.
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This volume unveils the story behind the nation's first great political scandals. James Thomson Callender, the "scandalmonger" of the title, is an ambitious gossip-peddling editor secretly hired by Thomas Jefferson as a political weapon. After carefully damaging Alexander Hamilton's reputation, thereby paving the way for Jefferson's success, Callender is shunned by the very politicians on whose behalf he was jailed  再讀一些...
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類型/形式: Political fiction
Biographical fiction
Fiction
其他的實體格式: Online version:
Safire, William, 1929-2009.
Scandalmonger.
New York : Simon & Schuster, c2000
(OCoLC)607439669
提及的人: James Thomson Callender; Alexander Hamilton
資料類型: 小說
文件類型: 圖書
所有的作者/貢獻者: William Safire
ISBN: 0684867192 9780684867199 9780743212052 0743212053
OCLC系統控制編碼: 42923594
描述: 496 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
内容: Part I Hamilton scandal --
Part II Sedition scandal --
Part III Jefferfon scandals --
Part IV Libel scandal --
Epilogue: What happened later.
責任: William Safire.

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This volume unveils the story behind the nation's first great political scandals. James Thomson Callender, the "scandalmonger" of the title, is an ambitious gossip-peddling editor secretly hired by Thomas Jefferson as a political weapon. After carefully damaging Alexander Hamilton's reputation, thereby paving the way for Jefferson's success, Callender is shunned by the very politicians on whose behalf he was jailed for sedition. Broke and betrayed, Callender seeks revenge by exposing an illicit affair between Jefferson and his slave Sally Hemmings, an accusation that ultimately cost Callender his career and would not be authenticated for two centuries. By using actual letters, records, and notes to re-create dialog and events, this work embodies historical fiction at its best, politics at its most intriguing, and our Founding Fathers at their most notorious. For those who think that Washington sex scandals and lurid journalism are recent developments, this novel will be a revelation, for it shows how media intrusiveness into private lives-and politicians' cool manipulation of the press-are practices as old as the Constitution.

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