PositiveNewsday\"But if [Abramson] had failings as an editor, her new book, Merchants of Truth: The Business of News and the Fight for Facts, shows that she’s an excellent reporter and a talented writer. It’s a lively, engaging, provocative and important book about the difficulties of doing honest journalism when there’s less money to pay for it ... It’s hard to find any 400-page book without a few minor errors, and score-settling is to be expected given that Abramson was driven out of the Times like a typhoid carrier. But it’s a solid work, and she in fact has high praise for the Times’ coverage of the president.\
John A. Farrell
RaveNewsday...an insightful and engaging biography ... There’s no avoiding the fact that with Nixon he’s plowing much familiar ground, but he does it vividly, shedding yet more light on one of our darkest presidencies ... In all, Nixon wrote a dozen books, some of them quite good if rather self-serving. But none of them were as honest, balanced or revealing as Farrell’s.
Alice Arlen and Michael J. Arlen
PositiveNewsday\"...[a] carefully researched and compelling biography ... For all its merits, The Huntress does not offer the definitive history of Newsday during the Patterson years ... Their biography is admiring but not uncritical, and the narrative is smooth and polished from start to end. It’s also sometimes painfully vivid.\
