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Scandalmonger
by Safire, William
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- Hardcover
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- Condition
- As New in Near Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0684867192
- ISBN 13
- 9780684867199
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About This Item
NY: Simon & Schuster. As New in Near Fine dust jacket. 2000. 1st Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. 0684867192 . Quarter bound in publisher's black cloth over ivory boards, gilt lettering and decoration on spine, fore-edge deckle. Illustrated with B&W in-text illustrations. A Pulitzer Prizewinning columnist offers a fictional exploration of America's early political scandals as James Thomson Callander, a muckraking journalist secretly working for Thomas Jefferson, becomes unhappy with Jefferson and reveals his affair with the enslaved Sally Hemings.. Both the volume and the unclipped dust jacket, except for a tiny closed tear on the front panel, are in perfect, pristine condition; unread, unmarked, tight, square, and clean. AS NEW/NEAR FINE.. B&W Illustrations. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 496 pp .
Synopsis
The bestselling historical novel that exposes the less than honorable side of our Founding Fathers by the Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist. In this gripping and timely work, William Safire unveils the story behind the nation's first great political scandals. James Thomson Callender, the "scandalmonger" of the title, is an ambitious gossip-peddling editor secretly hired by Thomas Jefferson as a political weapon. After carefully damaging Alexander Hamilton's reputation, thereby paving the way for Jefferson's success, Callender is shunned by the very politicians on whose behalf he was jailed for sedition. Broke and betrayed, Callender seeks revenge by exposing an illicit affair between Jefferson and his slave Sally Hemmings, an accusation that ultimately cost Callender his career and would not be authenticated for two centuries. By using actual letters, records, and notes to re-create dialogue and events, Scandalmonger embodies historical fiction at its best, politics at its most intriguing, and our Founding Fathers at their most notorious. For those who think that Washington sex scandals and lurid journalism are recent developments, this novel will be a revelation, for Safire shows how media intrusiveness into private lives-and politicians' cool manipulation of the press-are practices as old as the Constitution.
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- Bookseller
- Round Table Books, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 28926
- Title
- Scandalmonger
- Author
- Safire, William
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- New As New in Near Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- 1st Edition. First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0684867192
- ISBN 13
- 9780684867199
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 2000
- Keywords
- 0684867192, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, James thompson Callender, Historical Fiction, Literature, novels
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