Simon & Schuster, 2000. 1st Edition 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine+/Near Fine. This is a Very Attractive cover Novel Hardcover book. c2000, 1st Edition, 2nd printing. The Condition is Near Fine+ with a Near Fine Jacket. The book is in great condition both inside and out. It looks Very, very lightly read. It has a very bright & very clean cover with very nice edges. Very Nice spine ends with just a touch of wrinkle.. Tight & unmarked pages. No names. NOT a remainder. The jacket with price, is also very bright & very clean, very light shelf wear.. 496 pages. #20805-1223

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The bestselling historical novel that exposes the less than honorable side of our Founding Fathers by the Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist. In this gripping and timely work, William Safire unveils the story behind the nation's first great political scandals. James Thomson Callender, the "scandalmonger" of the title, is an ambitious gossip-peddling editor secretly hired by Thomas Jefferson as a political weapon. After carefully damaging Alexander Hamilton's reputation, thereby paving the way for Jefferson's success, Callender is shunned by the very politicians on whose behalf he was jailed for sedition. Broke and betrayed, Callender seeks revenge by exposing an illicit affair between Jefferson and his slave Sally Hemmings, an accusation that ultimately cost Callender his career and would not be authenticated for two centuries. By using actual letters, records, and notes to re-create dialogue and events, Scandalmonger embodies historical fiction at its best, politics at its most intriguing, and our Founding Fathers at their most notorious. For those who think that Washington sex scandals and lurid journalism are recent developments, this novel will be a revelation, for Safire shows how media intrusiveness into private lives-and politicians' cool manipulation of the press-are practices as old as the Constitution.

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Bookseller: Glenn David Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 020805
Title: Scandalmonger: A Novel
Author: William Safire
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Near Fine+
Jacket Condition: Near Fine
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: 1st Edition 2nd Printing
ISBN 10: 0684867192
ISBN 13: 9780684867199
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 2000

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