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A Reporter's Life

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recounts, "Cronkite is entitled to boast--especially in a book that is less surprising for its hubris than for the bitterness with which it ends. After almost 400 pages of great stories, unforgettable characters and impressive journalistic achievements at CBS, Cronkite complains that ultimately he
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book review said, "It's the story of a modest man who succeeded extravagantly by remaining mostly himself -- succeeded in a demanding new medium, itself part of an exploding technology that made the world more complex by enabling peoples to know more about one another. And not unlike journalism
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itself, his memoir is a short course on the flow of events in the second half of this century -- events the world knows more about because of Walter Cronkite's work, and some of which might not have happened without it."
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said that "Written with wry, self-deprecating humor, Cronkite's memoir gives us the veteran TV newscaster at his most relaxed and ingratiating as he recounts dozens of his scoops."
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on October 28, 1997. The 384-page memoir chronicles Cronkite's decades of reporting, focusing on his experiences with
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was 'driven from the temple where for 19 years . . . I had worshiped the great god News'."
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and much more. It includes personal accounts of his interactions with presidents from
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Index

Walter Cronkite
Memoir
Ballantine Books
Walter Cronkite
Ballantine Books
D-Day
Civil Rights Movement
John Kennedy assassination
NASA's
first crewed Moon landing and Moon walk
freedom movements
South Africa
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Richard Nixon
Ashbel Green
"A Reporter's Life"
"Broadcast News"
"A Reporter's Life"
"The Way We Were : A REPORTER'S LIFE. By Walter Cronkite"
Cronkite, Walter
A Reporter's Life
Ballantine Books
ISBN
978-0345411037
LCCN
96021053
OCLC
37894109
OL
25779002M

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