A Reporter's Life - Brossura

Cronkite, Walter

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ISBN 10: 0679774149 ISBN 13: 9780679774143

Casa editrice: Random House Large Print, 1997

Riassunto

The long-awaited memoirs of America's most trusted journalist describe Cronkite's youth, his early career as a reporter, his work as a war correspondent, and his rise to the pinnacle of television news, sharing his views on the media, news, and the American condition. (Biography).

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Walter Cronkite has been called the most trusted man in American.  His journalistic career has spanned six decades.

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He has been called the most trusted man in America. His 60-year journalistic career has spanned the Great Depression, several wars, and the extraordinary changes that have engulfed our nation over the last two-thirds of the 20th century. When Walter Cronkite advised his television audience in 1968 that the war in Vietnam could not be won, President Lyndon B. Johnson said: "If I've lost Cronkite, I've lost middle America."

Here is Cronkite's remarkable autobiography: his growing up in Kansas City and Houston; his service as a war correspondent for United Press; his plunge into television when it was still an infant industry; his rise to anchorman of The CBS Evening News and its eventual dominance of the airwaves. Here is Cronkite covering space shots, political conventions, a

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• Editore: Random House Large Print
• Data di pubblicazione: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0679774149
• ISBN 13: 9780679774143
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 609
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile