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Book SynopsisHerbert G. Klein was a significant figure in both journalism and political history during the mid- to late Twentieth Century. Klein is best known as longtime advisor to Richard Nixon, and was with Nixon at peak moments in his career, including the Checkers Speech and Nixon's 1960 and 1962 campaigns. Upon Nixon's election as President, Klein became the White House Director of Communications, a new position Klein was tasked with designing. For four years, Klein was known as one of Nixon's chief advisors. But then, for reasons historians have never fully explored, he disappears from Nixon's political landscape as well as from scholarly and public prominence. This book establishes Herbert G. Klein as a formative figure in the Richard Nixon White House, whose contributions to Nixon's press strategies, their subsequent impact on the president's actions, attitudes, and eventual fall, have been largely overshadowed in scholarly literature. It explores the then-emerging, and now enduring, confl
Trade ReviewProfessor Unus has found one of the untold tales of the Nixon presidency in her portrait of Herb Klein -- a "newsman" and "journalist" in the best meaning of those words. In fact, if Nixon had listened to Herb, rather than merely exploiting his considerable skills and good standing with his professional peers to spread Nixon's image-building messages from the White House, history could have been very different. This book is not merely excellent scholarship, it is a good read and a story well told. -- John W. Dean, Former Nixon White House Counsel
Table of ContentsChapter 1: Though Klein Struggled, the Press Ultimately Prevailed Chapter 2: 1946 – 1968: Klein and the Campaign Years Chapter 3: Launching the White House Communications Office Chapter 4: Media and the Vietnam Quagmire Chapter 5: Media and the Prelude of Watergate Chapter 6: Klein in Context
