Книга: David McKean, Douglas Frantz «Friends in High Places : The Rise and Fall of Clark Clifford»

Friends in High Places : The Rise and Fall of Clark Clifford

Производитель: "Неизвестный"

For more than forty years, Clark Clifford was Washington`s consummate Democratic power broker - attorney and adviser to the nation`s most influential leaders. His 1991 memoir, Counsel to the President, looked back on a remarkable career of public service. But the very year his autobiography was published, the Clifford legend began to crumble. Caught up in the scandal that destroyed the Bank of Credit and Commerce International, the eighty-five-year-old Clifford was arrested on charges relating to his lawfirm`s involvement with the outlaw bank. Though his case never went to trial, and his protege, Robert Altman, was found not guilty, Clifford`s reputation was in ruins. How could such a man come to such an end? What happened? And why? In Friends in High Places, a noted investigative reporter and a chief investigator in the Senate inquiry on BCCI provide the answers. Drawing on original documents, more than a hundred interviews with Clifford`s friends and adversaries, and fifty hours of... ISBN:0316291625

Издательство: "Неизвестный"

ISBN: 0316291625

Douglas Frantz

Douglas Frantz is an American investigative journalist, and Managing Director of Kroll’s Business Intelligence Washington office.[1]

Contents

Life

He graduated from DePauw University in 1971. He was an investigative reporter for The Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, and the New York Times.[2]

He was the Istanbul bureau chief for the New York Times. He was the managing editor of The Los Angeles Times, from 2005 to 2007. He was chief investigator for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.[3]

Awards

Works

References

  1. ^ http://www.krollconsulting.com/professionals/douglas-frantz/
  2. ^ http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/timestopics/people/f/douglas_frantz/index.html
  3. ^ http://articles.latimes.com/2009/jan/08/nation/na-frantz8
  4. ^ http://www.pulitzer.org/faceted_search/results/frantz

External links

Источник: Douglas Frantz

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