New York: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2017. Simon & Schuster Trade Paperback Edition. First printing [stated]. Trade paperback. xx, [2], 520, [2] pages. Illustrations. Index. With a new Foreword by Bob Woodward and Carl B Bernstein and a Afterword by Sally Quinn. Benjamin Crowninshield Bradlee (August 26, 1921 – October 21, 2014) was an American journalist who served as managing editor and later as executive editor of The Washington Post, from 1965 to 1991. Bradlee anticipated the United States would eventually enter World War II and enrolled in the Naval ROTC at Harvard. As a result, he received his naval commission on the same day he graduated. He was assigned to the Office of Naval Intelligence, and served as a communications officer in the Pacific. As a reporter in the 1950s, Bradlee became close friends with then-senator John F. Kennedy, who had graduated from Harvard two years before Bradlee, and lived nearby. He became a public figure when the Post joined The New York Times in publishing the Pentagon Papers and gave the go-ahead for the paper's extensive coverage of the Watergate scandal. He was also criticized for editorial lapses when the Post had to return a Pulitzer Prize in 1981 after it discovered its award-winning story was false. After his retirement, Bradlee continued to be associated with the Post, holding the position of Vice President at-large until his death. In retirement, Bradlee was an advocate for education and the study of history, including his role as a trustee on the boards of several major educational, historical, and archaeological research institutions. In 1991, Bradlee delivered the Theodore H. White lecture] at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. More

New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2013. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. viii, 855 pages. Illustrations. Footnotes. Appendices. Notes. Bibliography. Index. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Ben Bradlee Jr. (born August 7, 1948) is an American journalist and writer. He was a reporter and editor at The Boston Globe for 25 years, including a period when he supervised the Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation into sexual abuse by priests in the Boston archdiocese, and is the author of a comprehensive biography of Ted Williams. Bradlee spent most of his career at The Boston Globe, where he was successively investigative reporter, national correspondent, and editor. In 1993, he was promoted to Assistant Managing Editor responsible for investigations and projects. He left the Globe in 2004 to work on a biography of Ted Williams, which ultimately took ten years of in-depth research to finish. The Kid: The Immortal Life of Ted Williams was released in 2013. It received favorable reviews, highlighting the author's research into Williams' concealed Mexican–American identity and troubled family relationships (which culminated in the disputed cryonic preservation of Williams' head and torso). The book, which was a New York Times bestseller. More