The lampshade: A Holocaust Detective Story From Buchenwald to New Orleans. 940.5318 J
Mark Jacobson. Illustrated. 357 pages. Simon & Schuster. $26.
Poisoning the press: Richard Nixon, Jack Anderson, and the Rise of Washington’s Scandal Culture. 973.924 F
Mark Feldstein. Illustrated. 461 pages. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $30.
Ronald Reagan, as governor of California, said that Anderson and the columnist Drew Pearson, his employer at the time, “shouldn’t be using a typewriter” but “a pencil on outbuilding walls.” (Pearson and Anderson had reported that some of Reagan’s staff members were gay.) J. Edgar Hoover called Anderson “a flea-ridden dog” who was “lower than the regurgitated filth of vultures.” Nearly everything Richard Nixon said about Anderson — the pair were bitter 25-year antagonists — is unprintable here. But Anderson’s exposés about Nixon’s wrongdoing reduced the president’s special counsel, Charles Colson, to sputtering, as if someone had stuck a fork into his forehead, “Oh! Ach! Oh!”
And Britt Hume, Anderson's protegé, is now a Fox News (news used ruefully) pit bull. Anderson died in 2004.
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