Front Row at the White House: My Life and Times
Helen Thomas's memoir of decades spent as a White House correspondent. Seen from a reporter's perspective across administrations from Kennedy to Clinton, it traces the relationship between journalism and power.
Work Information
A record of watching the White House change from the front row of the press corps.
The memoir looks back on her reporting work, her career as a woman journalist, and the shifting distance between her and the presidents she covered. It reads as a firsthand witness to changes in American politics.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Scribner
- Published
- 2000-05-03
- Pages
- 432 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 13.97 x 2.54 x 21.59 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780684868097
- ISBN-10
- 0684868091
- Price
- 4386 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Education & Reference/Writing, Research & Publishing Guides/Writing/Journalism & Nonfiction
"Thank You, Mr. President." 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 copy-aide 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.
Helen Thomas is the dean of the White House press corps. The recipient of more than forty honorary degrees, she was honored in 1998 with the inaugural Helen Thomas Lifetime Achievement Award, established by the White House Correspondents' Association. The author of Thanks for the Memories, Mr. President; Front Row at the White House; and Dateline: White House, she lives in Washington, D.C., where she writes a syndicated column for Hearst.
Reviews
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Very interesting History and entertaining
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Intelligent and brave lady.
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Enjoyable read by a great reporter.
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The hours that I spent reading Helen Thomas' book have been a joy. If Helen has been re-reading her book, she must have filled in many more stories that have not been told. What a life Helen has had! As I was reading the book, I felt like going into the press room doing the routine of a White House correspondent every day and I could imagine the closeness that the correspondents had with the Presidents in the early years. "Don't lie" - her advice to any President. I hope journalists of today would follow her example of trying to be factual and objective, a quality that has been lost in the quest for circulation. The book has aroused my interest in the life of White House correspondents so much so that I have made a lot of efforts trying to track down "Thank You, Mr President" written in 1946 by Helen's colleague Merriman Smith. I have just started reading "some of the things that were overlooked in the big news of the day" as told by Smitty.
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Reading Helen Thomas's book gave me appreciation for her groundbreaking work, and gave me a new awareness of the importance of news from the Whtie House. It was a great trip down memory lane to recall so many presidencies. What a fun read!