A01=Richard Benedetto
Author_Richard Benedetto
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Product details
- ISBN 9780761834229
- Weight: 254g
- Dimensions: 145 x 217mm
- Publication Date: 24 Apr 2006
- Publisher: University Press of America
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Across the span of his 35-year career reporting on local, state, and national politics, USA TODAY White House correspondent Richard Benedetto has interviewed and closely watched a wide variety of politicians and public servants. This memoir and personal reflection considers the coverage and treatment of politics and politicians by today's media and offers suggestions for improvement. Benedetto argues that despite the often-cynical news coverage, most politicians are good people who, like all human beings, have strengths and weaknesses. He believes politicians deserve to be praised when they do well, as much as criticized when they fail. Politicians Are People, Too celebrates and offers personal insights on many of the thousands of public figures Benedetto has encountered—an eclectic list of politicians, public servants, and even a few celebrities, including George Wallace, Hillary and Bill Clinton, Dan Quayle, Mario Cuomo, Gary Hart, Paul Newman, Spiro Agnew, George W. Bush, Henry Cisneros, Frank Sinatra, Bob Hope and Ted Williams.
Richard Benedetto has more than three decades of experience in journalism and political reporting. A member of USA Today's founding staff in 1982, his Washington assignments have included the White House and national politics.
