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Drew, Elizabeth was born on November 16, 1935 in Cincinnati. Daughter of William J. and Estelle (Jacobs) Brenner.
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“Forty years after the greatest scandal of the American presidency, Washington Journal remains fresh and riveting, instructive and evocative.” ―Tom Brokaw Re-issued forty years after the tumultuous events that led to Richard Nixon’s historic downfall, a new edition of the legendary Elizabeth Drew’s Washington Journal, featuring a brilliant new afterword. Originally published soon after Richard Nixon's resignation, Elizabeth Drew’s Washington Journal is a landmark work of political journalism. Keenly observed and hugely insightful, Washington Journal opens in 1973 and follows the deterioration of Richard Nixon’s presidency in real time. With her unprecedented access to the top figures, Drew’s on-the-scene reporting is even more remarkable in hindsight, as Washington Journal does what no other book about that period has done or could do: captures the feeling of the period and reports in real time conversations with the key decision-makers as they made up their minds about the most fateful vote they would cast. It also shows us the sense of fear among both close observers and the citizenry, as well as their nervous laughter at the era's absurdities. Elizabeth Drew understands Richard Nixon as well as this most complex figure can be understood, and she shows how he brought himself down. In Washington Journal, Drew takes us along on what she calls "a wild ride through history." This new edition of Washington Journal includes an important new afterword, which reveals the fascinating―and frequently hilarious―story of Nixon’s efforts to regain respectability after he’d been forced from office, and it also offers original insights into the meaning of Watergate and Richard Nixon. Rich with new information unavailable at the time, the afterword is a major addition to a truly unique and enduring work of reportage.
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In the years 1973 and 1974, this country lived through the most extraordinary political events in our history. For many of us it was both a national experience and a personal one. We went through things we had never gone through before and had never imaged we would go through. We struggled with questions that had never previously occurred to us and with anxieties that it would have been impossible to anticipate. More major political events took place than we had ever believed could happen in such a brief period. Hence this book.
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Drew, Elizabeth was born on November 16, 1935 in Cincinnati. Daughter of William J. and Estelle (Jacobs) Brenner.
Bachelor, Wellesley College, 1957. Doctor of Humane Letters, Hood College, 1976. Doctor of Humane Letters, Yale University, 1976.
Doctor of Humane Letters, Trinity College, Washington, 1978. Doctor of Humane Letters, Reed College, 1979. Doctor of Humane Letters, Williams College, 1981.
Doctor of Humane Letters, Georgetown University, 1981. Doctor of Humane Letters, George Washington University, 1994. Doctor of Humane Letters, Trinity College, Hartford, 2000.
Elizabeth Drew is an American political journalist and author She currently resides in Washington District of Columbia Her first journalism job was with Congressional Quarterly beginning in 1959. She was Washington correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly (1967-1973) and The New Yorker (1973-1992).
Drew was a panelist for Meet the Press for many years and made frequent appearances The News Hour with Jim Lehrer and still occasionally appears on The NewsHour and other radio and television programs.
Drew was a panelist for the first debate in the 1976 United States. Presidential election, and moderated the debate between the Democratic candidates for the nomination in the 1984 race. Drew has written 14 books, including Washington Journal: The Events of 1973-1974 (1975), an account of the Watergate scandal.
Portrait of an Election: The 1980 Presidential Campaign (1981). On the Edge: The Clinton Presidency (1994).
And Citizen McCain (2002).
And George West. Bush"s Washington (2004). Her most recent book is Richard M. Nixon (2007). Washington Journal was re-issued in 2014, with a new afterword.
She was chosen to give the Knight Lecture at Stanford University in 1997.
She is a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books. as well as to its website. She has also written for Rolling Stone.
Drew is a former director of the Council on Foreign Relations (1972-1977). In 1986, the editors of Snooze: The Best of Our Magazine parodied her as "Elizabeth Drone," author of a "Giant Postcard From Washington."
In 1989, Spy magazine labeled her as the "author of too-frequent Washington columns."
In 2014, former Nixon aide Frank Gannon disputed Drew’s “blithe assertions that Nixon was a Dilantin-addicted alcoholic,” arguing that they were “as untrue as they are ugly.”.
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Drew attended Wellesley College, where she was a Phi Beta Kappa and graduated in 1957 with a Bachelor in Political Science. She made regular appearances on "Agronsky and Company" and hosted her own interview program for Public Broadcasting Service between 1971 and 1973.
Married J. Patterson Drew, April 11, 1964 (deceased 1970). Married David Webster, September 26, 1981 (deceased 2003). Married David Felton, October 14, 2004.