A Harvard-educated scion of a prominent Boston family, Bradlee found himself at the center of many of the 20th Century’s most seismic storms, including:
- World War II (he was a Navy officer in the Pacific theater);
- the ascension and assassination of John F. Kennedy (Bradlee and his wife were extremely close with Jack and Jackie);
- the First Amendment fight to publish the Pentagon Papers (detailing secret strategies of the U.S. military in Vietnam) in The New York Times and Bradlee’s newspaper, The Washington Post;
- and the fall of Richard Nixon after the Post’s electrifying Watergate revelations.
As a result, Bradlee was cast as the country’s most prominent (and possibly only) celebrity newspaperman, apologist (he had to admit a 1981 Pulitzer Prize-winning Post story was bogus), and elder statesman preaching the gospel of good journalism: “not to be loved, but to go after the truth.
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