Lost History: Contras, Cocaine, the Press & 'Project Truth'

Robert Parry

ISBN 10: 1893517004 / ISBN 13: 9781893517004

Published by Media Consortium, 1999

Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Seller Inventory # G1893517004I3N00

Synopsis:

- Lost History is a kind of All the President's Men in reverse. As that journalistic classic followed Woodward and Bernstein exposing Watergate, Lost History is the inside story of reporters who broke the key stories of the Iran-contra scandal. But instead of basking in praise, they paid a high personal price. In a larger sense, Lost History explains how the Washington press corps of the 1980s missed or under-reported many of the major scandals of the era, from the dirty secret of Nicaraguan contra-cocaine trafficking to the Guatemalan army's * against Mayan Indians. Not only does Lost History recover this important historical record from the government's secret files, but it shows how the decade of the 1980s was the missing link in the transformation of the Washington press corps from the glory days of Watergate to the tawdry tabloid moments of Monica Lewinsky. This is a book not only about "lost history" but about a political system that has lost its way.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Lost History: Contras, Cocaine, the Press & ...
Publisher: Media Consortium
Publication Date: 1999
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket