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Janet Malcom explores the relationship between convicted murderer Jeffrey MacDonald and writer Joe McGinnis, asking disturbing questions in the process about the moral debt that journalists owe their subjects.
Book Details
Publisher: Vintage
Publish Date: Oct 31st, 1990
Pages: 176
Language: English
Edition: undefined - undefined
Dimensions: 7.94in - 5.30in - 0.47in - 0.36lb
EAN: 9780679731832
Categories: • Journalism• Media Studies• Murder - General
About the Author
Janet Malcolm's previous books are Diana and Nikon: Essays on Photography; Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession; In the Freud Archives; The Journalist and the Murderer; The Purloined Clinic: Selected Writings; The Silent Woman: Slyvia Plath and Ted Hughes; and The Crime of Sheila McGough. She lives in New York with her husband, Gardner Botsford.
Praise for this book
"It is not with regard to journalism but with regard to the making of works of art that Malcom's important book gathers its inspiration, its breathtaking rhetorical velocity, and its great truth." --David Rieff, Los Angeles Times