Benjamin Crowninshield Bradlee is a Boston Brahmin (St.Marks and
Harvard) who still can't resist an opportunity to drop the name of an
upper-class acquaintance. (Of the nearly 600 names in this book, over 100
are present or recent members of the Council on Foreign Relations, and
more than a few have intelligence connections.) Forget the image of the
hard-drinking, foul-mouthed reporter from those 1930s movies, who risks all
to go after corruption at City Hall. Bradlee sees himself that way, and the
movie "All the President's Men" still feeds this myth of American reporting.
But after running Bradlee's friends through NameBase, it's clear that short
of Watergate, the Washington Post was close to expiring from irrelevance
and obsolescence -- due to their chummy association with the rich and
powerful, and with the secret state lurking behind them.
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