An award-winning presidential historian offers an authoritative account of American presidents' attacks on our freedom of the press—including a new foreword c

Examines Abraham Lincoln's relationship with the press, arguing that he used such intimidation and manipulation techniques as closing down dissenting newspapers

Shines new light on America's brilliant constitutional and presidential history, from George Washington to Barack Obama. In this sweepingly ambitious volume, th

Certainly all presidents and prime ministers have engaged in spin to a certain extent, but in the past the media - and the public - checked the extent to which

Clash describes the powerful political, technological, economic, and social forces that shape the relationship between presidents and the press and how that rel