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A Good Life: Newspapering and Other Adventures

by Ben Bradlee · 1995

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The glamorous, celebrity-filled memoirs of newspaperman Ben Bradlee, whose role in the Watergate scandal was immortalized in "All the President's Men" by Jason Robards. This is the story of how he changed a small Southern newspaper into an internationally recognized and respected newspaper.

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