Stonewalled

Sharyl Attkisson, a CBS correspondent, writes about being tracked electronically while she investigated the Obama Administration's controversies. Her reporting on those scandals drew a steady pushback that went well past ordinary criticism. Her critics went after her online and pressed her network's leadership, all to scare her away from her next story.

The book also looks at a wider problem: powerful people in government and business often answer to no one. Attkisson describes the administration's record of watching reporters, harassing groups that opposed it, and monitoring private citizens. She also examines how fewer newsrooms now do the slow, costly work of investigation.

Drawing on more than three decades in journalism, Attkisson tells her own story across both Republican and Democratic administrations, and sets it against the decline of investigative reporting and impartial truth-telling in the United States today.