Taking the helm of The Washington Post in 1965, Bradlee and his reporters redefined the way the news is reported, published, and read his leadership and investigative drive following the break-in at the Democratic National Committee led to the downfall of a president, and kept every president afterwards on his toes.Ī Good Life is Bradlee's irreverent, earthy, and revealing look at modern American journalism - and the extraordinary life story of the man who helped to reinvent it. Bradlee was finally under way.Īnd so begins this witty, candid story of a daring young man who made his way to the heights of American journalism and public life, from a New Hampshire weekly through his foreign correspondent years in Europe, to the apex of his career at The Washington Post, whose Watergate coverage gave journalism its finest hours.Īn eyewitness to most of the seminal events of our time, a good friend to President Kennedy and a dreaded foe of President Nixon, Bradlee watched and talked to most of the heroes and villains who were making such vivid history so fast. I was not yet 21.The education of Benjamin C.
And at 4 p.m., I married Jean Saltonstall, the first and only girl I had ever been with and I was on my way to someplace called the South Pacific. At noon, I was commissioned an ensign in the U.S. On August 8, 1942, I graduated from Harvard by the skin of my teeth at 10 a.m. His leadership and investigative drive during the Watergate scandal led to the downfall of a president, and his challenge to the government over the right to publish the Pentagon Papers changed the course of American history.īradlee’s timeless memoir is a fascinating, irreverent, earthy, and revealing look at America and American journalism in the twentieth century - a “sassy, sometimes eye-poppingly, engrossing autobiography.must reading” ( The New York Times Book Review).AS FEATURED IN THE HBO DOCUMENTARY THE NEWSPAPERMAN: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF BEN BRADLEE!Īn eyewitness account from the playing fields where the first rough draft of history was written. After Bradlee took the helm in 1965, he and his reporters transformed the Post into one of the most influential and respected news publications in the world, reinvented modern investigative journalism, won eighteen Pulitzer Prizes, and redefined the way news is reported, published, and read.
The most important, glamorous, and famous newspaperman of modern times traces his path from Harvard to the battles of the South Pacific to the pinnacle of success at The Washington Post. The classic New York Times bestselling memoir by legendary Executive Editor of The Washington Post Ben Bradlee-with a new foreword by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein and an afterword by Sally Quinn.
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