Candid about his marital difficulties and affairs, Bradlee found happiness in 1978 by marrying writer Sally Quinn he's now involved in civic projects and fatherhood. Bradlee's tales of Watergate, the Pentagon papers and other big stories are told well enough, and he thoughtfully ventilates in-house debates on issues of privacy and national security. Transferred back to Washington, he was assigned to cover his neighbor JFK, who was then a senator, and rose to power at the magazine's newly purchased Post. In 2013 he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama. By 2007, the French government had forgiven him for his reporting on the war in Algeria, and it gave him its highest decoration, the Legion of Honor.

Bradlee Genre: Biography & Autobiography. Tracing his journey from Harvard, through the Pacific war, to postwar Paris, to the height of success as editor of The Washington Post, the. In 1995, Bradlee published a memoir, A Good Life: Newspapering and Other Adventures. Frederick Josiah Bradlee, Jr., son of Frederick Josiah Bradlee, grandson of Frederick Hall Bradlee, all the way back eight generations to Nathaniel Bradley, born in 1631, who got the cider concession in Dorchester, Massachusetts, in 1673, and made sexton in 1680. About the author Ben Bradlee 10 books12 followers Father of Ben Bradlee Jr. GenresMemoir 158 pages, Hardcover First published JanuBook details & editions Loading interface. Shaped more by his naval service than by Harvard, in 1951 the well-born Bostonian gave up a journalism job in Washington to become a press attache in Paris, where he buddied up with Art Buchwald and moved to Newsweek. A Good Life - Ben Bradlee Format: Trade Paperback Language: English Item Height: 1.6in. By the bestselling author of A Good Life, immortal editor of The Washington Post, a book about being fathered and fathering. His fluid memoir ably recounts his rich life but offers few revelations (he claims he knew nothing of his friend JFK's promiscuity) and little deep self-criticism. Executive editor of the Washington Post from 1965 to 1991, Bradlee helped remake the newspaper into the influential voice it is today.

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