Reliable Sources: 100 Years at the National Press Club - Centennial Edition
From a chance encounter by two reporters on a Washington street corner in February 1908, the National Press Club has grown to be the world’s largest, most prestigious club run by journalists. It started as a watering hole and card room for newspapermen, but from the beginning its members have hosted and questioned – most of the national and world leaders who shaped the 20th and now the 21st century.
Reliable Sources: 100 Years at the National Press Club tells the story of the history-making events as well as the wackiness that only a club of journalists can create. Here is Nikita Khrushchev explaining why he would “bury us,” Lauren Bacall draping her legs over an upright piano as Harry Truman plays, Sen. Joe McCarthy winning a Club mule race and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad reciting verses from the Koran. And how did the Club’s bar figure into the Cuban missile crisis? It’s all here.
Written by the people who know the Club best, this is also the story of how the original white, male newspaper bastion accepted at first grudgingly and then with enthusiasm African Americans, women, broadcast journalists and Internet bloggers and turned into a professional organization with international outreach.
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Book details
- Author
- Gil Klein
- Imprint
- Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Pages
- 240
- Formats
- Hardcover, Paperback
- Subjects
- History
- Topics
- American journalism history · Washington D.C. · world leaders · press and politics · 20th century history · journalists and reporters
- ISBN-13
- 9781596522114 (Hardcover)9781681623795 (Paperback)
About the author
GIL KLEIN is a journalist and journalism educator who served as a national correspondent for the Media General News Service for 22 years, writing for 23 Southern newspapers. His recent books include Tales from the National Press Club and Trouble in Lafayette Square: Assassination, Protest and Murder at the White House.
Klein served as president of the National Press Club in 1994 and later became its historian. He holds a master’s degree in communication from American University, where he taught journalism for eight years beginning in 2010, and has served as Resident Director of the University of Oklahoma’s Washington Journalism Program.
Gil lives in Arlington, Virginia.