
' Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible' In equal measure famous & infamous Janet Malcolm's book charts the true story of a lawsuit between Jeffrey Mac Donald a convicted murderer & Joe Mc Ginniss the author of a book about the crime Lauded as one of the Modern Libraries 100 Best Works of Nonfiction The Journalist & the Murderer is fascinating & controversial a contemporary classic of reportage