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- catalog abstract "This volume unveils the story behind the nation's first great political scandals. James Thomson Callender, the "scandalmonger" of the title, is an ambitious gossip-peddling editor secretly hired by Thomas Jefferson as a political weapon. After carefully damaging Alexander Hamilton's reputation, thereby paving the way for Jefferson's success, Callender is shunned by the very politicians on whose behalf he was jailed for sedition. Broke and betrayed, Callender seeks revenge by exposing an illicit affair between Jefferson and his slave Sally Hemmings, an accusation that ultimately cost Callender his career and would not be authenticated for two centuries. By using actual letters, records, and notes to re-create dialog and events, this work embodies historical fiction at its best, politics at its most intriguing, and our Founding Fathers at their most notorious. For those who think that Washington sex scandals and lurid journalism are recent developments, this novel will be a revelation, for it shows how media intrusiveness into private lives-and politicians' cool manipulation of the press-are practices as old as the Constitution.".
- catalog contributor b11508531.
- catalog coverage "United States History 1783-1815 Fiction.".
- catalog coverage "United States Politics and government 1783-1809 Fiction.".
- catalog created "c2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "c2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2000.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 489-494).".
- catalog description "Part I Hamilton scandal -- Part II Sedition scandal -- Part III Jefferfon scandals -- Part IV Libel scandal -- Epilogue: What happened later.".
- catalog description "This volume unveils the story behind the nation's first great political scandals. James Thomson Callender, the "scandalmonger" of the title, is an ambitious gossip-peddling editor secretly hired by Thomas Jefferson as a political weapon. After carefully damaging Alexander Hamilton's reputation, thereby paving the way for Jefferson's success, Callender is shunned by the very politicians on whose behalf he was jailed for sedition. Broke and betrayed, Callender seeks revenge by exposing an illicit affair between Jefferson and his slave Sally Hemmings, an accusation that ultimately cost Callender his career and would not be authenticated for two centuries. By using actual letters, records, and notes to re-create dialog and events, this work embodies historical fiction at its best, politics at its most intriguing, and our Founding Fathers at their most notorious. For those who think that Washington sex scandals and lurid journalism are recent developments, this novel will be a revelation, for it shows how media intrusiveness into private lives-and politicians' cool manipulation of the press-are practices as old as the Constitution.".
- catalog extent "496 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Scandalmonger.".
- catalog identifier "0684867192".
- catalog isFormatOf "Scandalmonger.".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "c2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Simon & Schuster,".
- catalog relation "Scandalmonger.".
- catalog spatial "United States History 1783-1815 Fiction.".
- catalog spatial "United States Politics and government 1783-1809 Fiction.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "813/.54 21".
- catalog subject "Callender, James Thomson, 1758-1803 Fiction.".
- catalog subject "Hamilton, Alexander, 1757-1804 Fiction.".
- catalog subject "Journalists Fiction.".
- catalog subject "Journalists United States Fiction.".
- catalog subject "PS3569.A283 S33 2000".
- catalog subject "Scandals Fiction.".
- catalog subject "Scandals United States Fiction.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Part I Hamilton scandal -- Part II Sedition scandal -- Part III Jefferfon scandals -- Part IV Libel scandal -- Epilogue: What happened later.".
- catalog title "Scandalmonger / William Safire.".
- catalog type "Biographical fiction. gsafd.".
- catalog type "Political fiction.".
- catalog type "text".