The Journalist and the Murderer
by Janet Malcolm
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Recommended by 4 notable people, including Patrick Collison and Lena Dunham
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Recommended by 6 sources and appears in Journalism, Investigative Journalism, and True Crime.
In two previous books, Janet Malcolm explored the hidden sides of, respectively, institutional psychoanalysis and Freudian biography. In this book, she examines the psychopathology of journalism. Using a strange and unprecedented lawsuit as her largerthanlife example the lawsuit of Jeffrey MacDonald, a convicted murderer, against Joe McGinniss...
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Recommended by 6 sources and appears in Journalism, Investigative Journalism, and True Crime.
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