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Explains how White House press secretaries have for decades developed the art of shaping the news in their daily press briefings to reporters in favor of the president-the highly sophisticated, complex communications strategy popularly known as spin.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements FOREWORD: Press Secretaries Are Historical Figures by Marlin Fitzwater FOREWORD: The First Woman Press Secretary by Dee Dee Myers PREFACE: The Life of a Press Secretary by Woody Klein INTRODUCTION: The White House Press Secretary: After the Presidency Itself, Toughest Job in the White House CHAPTER I: HOT WAR CHAPTER TWO: COLD WAR CHAPTER THREE: PRESIDENTIAL SCANDALS CHAPTER FOUR: DOMESTIC CRISES CHAPTER FIVE: DOMESTIC CONTROVERSIES CHAPTER SIX: GLOBAL ISSUES Selected Bibliography Index About the author

About the Author

WOODY KLEIN is a former Press Secretary to a New York City Mayor, a former award-winning investigative and political reporter for daily newspapers in Washington, D.C., and New York, and an award-winning historian. He is the author of Westport, Connecticut: The Story of a New England Town's Rise to Prominence, winner of the Connecticut League of History Organizations' Book Award Toward Humanity and Justice: The Writings of Dr. Kenneth B. Clark, Scholar of the Brown v. Board of Education Decision in 1954 (2004), winner of Best Book of the Year award from the Connecticut Press Club in 2006 d Liberties Lost: The Endangered Legacy of the ACLU (2006). He also authored Let in the Sun (1962) and Lindsay's Promise (1970).

Reviews

Klein, former New York City Mayor John Lindsay's press secretary, explains how the role of presidential press secretary has evolved from the public relations directors known to FDR and Truman to the spinmeisters of recent administration….He organizes material by topics that include the Cold War, presidential scandals, domestic crises, and global issues….This book is a welcome marriage of well-researched scholarship and an engagingly fresh style. Most sections are well documented, and there is an extensive bibliography. Recommended for public and academic communications collections.
*Library Journal*

All the President's Spokesmen, is the first to explore in such breadth the complex and often tense relationship between presidents, presidential press secretaries and the reporters who cover the White House….This is wonderful stuff if you're interested in such things and you won't hear any of it at the next press conference.
*Westport News*