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A Good Life (Abridged): A Newspapering and Other Adventures Audiobook
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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.
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. 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.
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.
Bradlee’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).
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“History comes alive as longtime Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee recalls his life as a journalist and eyewitness to the major events of the last half of the twentieth century. Bradlee reads his own words with a slow, measured pace. His voice has a throaty, gravelly quality with an almost sing-song cadence. But his distinctive delivery is well suited to this audio presentation full of personal reminiscences and historical revelations. Hearing about the Kennedy years and the investigation of Watergate from one who was there makes for great listening pleasure and fascinating entertainment.”
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“[A] sassy, sometimes eye-poppingly, engrossing autobiography. Delicious inside stuff: tales told out of school…A Good Life is must reading.”
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“A Good Life is a delightful book. It is entrancing and randy. It is remarkably evocative of Ben Bradlee, the dynamic, aggressive, irreverent, principled, gutsy man who turned a pedestrian Washington Post into a great newspaper.”
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“On one level, Mr. Bradlee’s book is a compelling and colorful story about the life and times of a journalist whose career converged with many of the great stories of his generation. On another, perhaps more subtle, level, the Post’s great stories—and how the newspaper pursued them, overcame obstacles to get them, decided to publish them and how they affected the nation—provide for readers of this very entertaining and illuminating autobiography important insights into the inextricable relationship between the government and the press.”
— Baltimore Sun
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About Ben Bradlee
Ben Bradlee was executive editor of the Washington Post from 1968 to 1991 after three years as the managing editor. He challenged the government on the press’ right to print the Pentagon Papers and assisted in the publications of stories about the Watergate Scandal. Now he serves as the newspaper’s vice president at large. He lives in Washington, DC, with his wife and their son.