Burning Down My Master's House

by Blair, Jayson

• ISBN13: 9781932407266
• ISBN10: 193240726X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-03-01
• Publisher: New Millenium

Summary

From the Publisher Burning Down My Masters' House is the highly-anticipated memoir that captures the pain, anger and fierce determination of Jayson Blair. A young black journalist who descended from slaves, he rose to become a national correspondent at The New York Times before igniting the largest journalism scandal in decades. Blair accepts all the words that have been used to describe him: liar, thief, fabricator and plagiarist. He does not push responsibility for his actions onto anyone else, but seeks to explain how someone with talent and opportunity could fall from such great heights, primarily by his own hand. For the first time, in his own words, Blair seeks to answer the question that consumed media watchers, writers and readers everywhere: How could such a thing have happened at The New York Times? This is a painfully honest, fascinating and controversial memoir. JAYSON BLAIR is a writer living in New York City.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Fire	1	(29)
Silver Hill	30	(20)
Mother's Day Massacre	50	(13)
Toxic Waste	63	(7)
Rebuilding	70	(4)
Young and Haunted	74	(8)
Hitting the Ground Running	82	(10)
New Lows	92	(2)
Velociraptor	94	(8)
A Death in Central Park	102	(10)
Sins of the Father	112	(5)
How Race Is Lived in the Newsroom	117	(10)
The Game	127	(12)
Secret Life	139	(13)
A New Leader	152	(3)
New York Dixie	155	(12)
When the Dust Settles	167	(10)
Rwanda on the Hudson	177	(7)
Anthrax in the Newsroom	184	(4)
Getting Lost in the Dust	188	(16)
Pretty Little Boy	204	(5)
Birds Chirping?	209	(16)
On the Beach	225	(4)
Chasing Snipers	229	(10)
Black Chief, Bad Prosecutors	239	(10)
Young Sniper	249	(11)
Setting the Fire	260	(8)
At War	268	(8)
Burning Down the House	276	(12)
Going Down in the Fire	288	(9)
Acknowledgments	297