Lexington Books
Pages: 276
Trim: 6½ x 9
978-1-4985-8135-6 • Hardback • November 2018 • $105.00 • (£81.00)
978-1-4985-8136-3 • eBook • November 2018 • $99.50 • (£77.00)
Wafa Unus is assistant professor of journalism at Fitchburg State University.
Chapter 1: Though Klein Struggled, the Press Ultimately Prevailed
Chapter 2: 1946 – 1968: Klein and the Campaign Years
Chapter 3: Launching the White House Communications Office
Chapter 4: Media and the Vietnam Quagmire
Chapter 5: Media and the Prelude of Watergate
Chapter 6: Klein in Context
Professor Unus has found one of the untold tales of the Nixon presidency in her portrait of Herb Klein—a “newsman” and “journalist” in the best meaning of those words. In fact, if Nixon had listened to Herb, rather than merely exploiting his considerable skills and good standing with his professional peers to spread Nixon’s image-building messages from the White House, history could have been very different. This book is not merely excellent scholarship, it is a good read and a story well told.
— John W. Dean, Former Nixon White House Counsel