Error loading page.
Try refreshing the page. If that doesn't work, there may be a network issue, and you can use our self test page to see what's preventing the page from loading.
Learn more about possible network issues or contact support for more help.
Advanced
Title details for Truth and Duty by Mary Mapes - Available

Truth and Duty

by Mary Mapes
Mary Mapes
Audiobook
Listen to a sample Listen to a sample

A riveting account of how the public's right to know is being attacked by an unholy alliance among politicians, news organizations and corporate America.
Truth and Duty was made into the 2015 film Truth, starring Cate Blanchett, Robert Redford, Topher Grace and Elizabeth Moss.
For twenty five years, Mary Mapes has been an award-winning television producer and reporter — the last fifteen of them for CBS News, principally for the CBS Evening News with Dan Rather and 60 Minutes. She had the bedrock of respect of her peers — in 2003 alone, she broke the story of the Abu Ghraib prison tortures (which won CBS The Peabody Award) and the existence of Strom Thurmond's illegitimate bi-racial daughter Essie Mae Washington.
But it was Dan Rather's lightning rod of a story on George W. Bush's National Guard Service that brought Mapes into an unwanted limelight. The firestorm that followed the broadcast led not only to Mapes' firing and Rather's stepping down from his anchor chair a year early, but to an unprecedented "internal" inquiry into the story — chaired by former Reagan Attorney General Richard Thornburgh.
Peopled with an historic and colorful cast of characters—from Karl Rove to Summer Redstone to John Kerry to Col. Bobby Hodges — this groundbreaking book about how the television news is made (and unmade) made headlines itself when first published. But this, it turns out, is only part of the story. Mapes talks for the first time about the riveting behind-the-scenes action at CBS during this frenzied period and exposes some of the largest political and social controversies that have broken in this new age of dissonance.
* Features a new chapter for the trade paper edition

Expand title description text
Publisher: Macmillan Audio Edition: Abridged

OverDrive Listen audiobook

  • ISBN: 9781593978389
  • File size: 143906 KB
  • Release date: April 30, 2010
  • Duration: 04:59:48

MP3 audiobook

  • ISBN: 9781593978389
  • File size: 143928 KB
  • Release date: April 30, 2010
  • Duration: 04:59:47
  • Number of parts: 4
Loading
Loading

Formats

OverDrive Listen audiobook
MP3 audiobook

subjects

Biography & Autobiography Business Language Arts Nonfiction

Languages

English

A riveting account of how the public's right to know is being attacked by an unholy alliance among politicians, news organizations and corporate America.
Truth and Duty was made into the 2015 film Truth, starring Cate Blanchett, Robert Redford, Topher Grace and Elizabeth Moss.
For twenty five years, Mary Mapes has been an award-winning television producer and reporter — the last fifteen of them for CBS News, principally for the CBS Evening News with Dan Rather and 60 Minutes. She had the bedrock of respect of her peers — in 2003 alone, she broke the story of the Abu Ghraib prison tortures (which won CBS The Peabody Award) and the existence of Strom Thurmond's illegitimate bi-racial daughter Essie Mae Washington.
But it was Dan Rather's lightning rod of a story on George W. Bush's National Guard Service that brought Mapes into an unwanted limelight. The firestorm that followed the broadcast led not only to Mapes' firing and Rather's stepping down from his anchor chair a year early, but to an unprecedented "internal" inquiry into the story — chaired by former Reagan Attorney General Richard Thornburgh.
Peopled with an historic and colorful cast of characters—from Karl Rove to Summer Redstone to John Kerry to Col. Bobby Hodges — this groundbreaking book about how the television news is made (and unmade) made headlines itself when first published. But this, it turns out, is only part of the story. Mapes talks for the first time about the riveting behind-the-scenes action at CBS during this frenzied period and exposes some of the largest political and social controversies that have broken in this new age of dissonance.
* Features a new chapter for the trade paper edition

Expand title description text
Biography & Autobiography Business Language Arts Nonfiction
  • Details

    Publisher:
    Macmillan Audio
    Edition:
    Abridged

    OverDrive Listen audiobook
    ISBN: 9781593978389
    File size: 143906 KB
    Release date: April 30, 2010
    Duration: 04:59:48

    MP3 audiobook
    ISBN: 9781593978389
    File size: 143928 KB
    Release date: April 30, 2010
    Duration: 04:59:47
    Number of parts: 4

  • Creators
  • Formats
    OverDrive Listen audiobook
    MP3 audiobook
  • Languages
    English
  • Reviews
    Loading
    Loading