Front row at the White House : my life and times / Helen Thomas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thomas, Helen, 1920-2013.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Thomas, Helen, 1920-2013.

Thomas, Helen.

Women journalists--United States--Biography.

Women journalists.

United States.

Presidents--United States--Biography.

Presidents.

United States--Politics and government--1945-1989.

Politics and government.

United States--Politics and government--1989-.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

415 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm

Edition:

First Touchstone edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Touchstone, 2000.

Summary:

From the woman who has reported on every president from Kennedy to Clinton comes a privileged glimpse into the White House--and a telling record of the ever-changing relationship between the presidency and the press.

Helen Thomas wanted to be a reporter from her earliest years. She turned a copyaide job at the Washington Daily News into a powerful and successful career spanning thirty-seven years and eight U.S. presidents. Assigned to the White House press corps in 1961, Thomas was the first woman to close a press conference with "Thank you, Mr. President." She was also the first female president of the White House Correspondents Association and the first woman member, later president, of the Gridiron Club.

In this revealing memoir, which includes hundreds of anecdotes, observations, and personal details, Thomas looks back on a career spent with presidents at home and abroad, on the ground and in the air. Providing a unique view of the past four decades of presidential history, Front Row at the White House offers a seasoned study of the relationship between the chief executive officer and the press--a relationship that is sometimes uneasy, sometimes playful, yet always integral to the democratic process.

Contents:

1. Beginnings 15

2. Washington: The Early Years 27

3. A Little Rebellion Now and Then 39

4. New Frontiers 53

5. Where Everybody Knows My Name 61

6. Access Denied 73

7. "...And I'd Like a Follow-up" 99

8. Not Exactly Nine to Five 123

9. On the Road 165

10. "She Told the Truth" 203

11. Doug 227

12. The Smallest Sorority 239

13. "A Splendid Misery" 297

14. Short Takes on Long Views 379.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [391]-396) and index.

ISBN:

0684868091

9780684868097

OCLC:

43962480