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Marty Barron's career almost reads like a Hollywood script.

The former newspaper executive has overseen editorial coverage

for some of the nation's largest newspapers,

versus an editor at the Miami Herald

during the 2000 presidential election recount

which hinged on results from Florida

to the Boston Globe during the Catholic Church sex scandal

which was dramatized in the Academy Award-winning movie Spotlight.

Barron's new book focuses on what he calls the home stretch of his career

as the executive editor of the Washington Post.

He began just a few months before Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon

and one of the richest men in the world,

purchased the post from the Graham family

which had owned it for eight decades.

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