Journalist and the Murderer

Name: Journalist and the Murderer
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ISBN: 9780679731832

ISBN-10: 0679731830

ISBN-13: 9780679731832

Edition: 1990

Authors: Janet Malcolm

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In two previous books, Janet Malcolm explored the hidden sides of, respectively, institutional psychoanalysis and Freudian biography. In this book, she examines the psychopathology of journalism. Using a strange and unprecedented lawsuit as her larger-than-life example -- the lawsuit of Jeffrey MacDonald, a convicted murderer, against Joe McGinniss, the author of Fatal Vision, a book about the crime -- she delves into the always uneasy, sometimes tragic relationship that exists between journalist and subject. In Malcolm's view, neither journalist nor subject can avoid the moral impasse that is built into the journalistic situation. When the text first appeared, as a two-part article in The…

Book details

List price: $18.00
Copyright year: 1990
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 10/31/1990
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 176
Size: 5.20" wide x 8.01" long x 0.49" tall
Weight: 0.440