{"product_id":"the-journalist-and-the-murderer-janet-malcolm-9780679731832","title":"The Journalist and the Murderer","description":"\u003cb\u003eA seminal work and examination of the psychopathology of journalism. Using a strange and unprecedented lawsuit by a convicted murder againt the journalist who wrote a book about his crime, Malcolm delves into the always uneasy, sometimes tragic relationship that exists between journalist and subject. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFeaturing the real-life lawsuit of Jeffrey MacDonald, a convicted murderer, against Joe McGinniss, the author of \u003ci\u003eFatal Vision.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn Malcolm's view, neither journalist nor subject can avoid the moral impasse that is built into the journalistic situation. When the text first appeared, as a two-part article in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, its thesis seemed so radical and its irony so pitiless that journalists across the country reacted as if stung. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHer book is a work of journalism as well as an essay on journalism: it at once exemplifies and dissects its subject. In her interviews with the leading and subsidiary characters in the MacDonald-McGinniss case -- the principals, their lawyers, the members of the jury, and the various persons who testified as expert witnesses at the trial -- Malcolm is always aware of herself as a player in a game that, as she points out, she cannot lose. The journalist-subject encounter has always troubled journalists, but never before has it been looked at so unflinchingly and so ruefully. Hovering over the narrative -- and always on the edge of the reader's consciousness -- is the MacDonald murder case itself, which imparts to the book an atmosphere of anxiety and uncanniness. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Journalist and the Murderer\u003c\/i\u003e derives from and reflects many of the dominant intellectual concerns of our time, and it will have a particular appeal for those who cherish the odd, the off-center, and the unsolved.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Janet Malcolm\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0679731830\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780679731832\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Vintage\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/31\/1990\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.36lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.94h x 5.30w x 0.47d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/19\/1990","brand":"Janet Malcolm","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44051262439679,"sku":"9780679731832","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_919a7232-deb0-45af-8a75-5d4cb3deaff7.jpg?v=1685012047","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-journalist-and-the-murderer-janet-malcolm-9780679731832","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}