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Crackling with the personalities, conflicts, and ambitions that transformed the media from something that followed the news to something that formed it, "The Powers That Be" is David Halberstam's forceful account of the rise of modern media as an instrument of political power, published here... read more

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He was young and the industry was younger.

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  1. David Halberstam (Author)
 

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