Cronkite

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Douglas Brinkley presents the definitive, revealing biography of an American legend: renowned news anchor Walter Cronkite.

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Full title :Cronkite / Douglas Brinkley.

Summary

Douglas Brinkley presents the definitive, revealing biography of an American legend: renowned news anchor Walter Cronkite.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2012
Edition:1st ed

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:2012

Notes

Includes index.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xi, 819 pages) : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780062196637, 0062196634
oclc:ocn795525839
LC Classification:PN4874.C84
Dewey Decimal:070.4092

The making of a reporter. Missouri boy ; Houston youth ; Learning a trade ; Making of a unipresser -- The Second World War. Gearing up for Europe ; The writing Sixty-ninth ; Dean of the air war ; Gliding to V-E Day ; From the Nuremberg Trials to Russia -- Cold War broadcaster. Infancy of TV news ; Election night and UNIVAC ; Mr. CBS utility man ; The Huntley and Brinkley challenge ; Torch is passed ; New space frontier on CBS -- Anchorman. Anchorman of Camelot ; The Kennedy assassination ; Who's afraid of the Nielsen Ratings? ; Paley's attempted smackdown ; Civil rights and Project Gemini ; What to do about Vietnam? ; The Tet Offensive -- Top game. Calm and chaos of 1968 ; Mr. Moon Shot ; Avatar of Earth Day ; The Nixon-versus-CBS war ; Reportable truth in the age of Nixon ; Fan clubs, stalkers, and political good-byes ; A time to heal ; Live with Jimmy Carter -- The spokesperson. Retirement blues ; Struggling elder statesman ; Defiant liberal ; "The world's oldest reporter" ; The new millennium ; Electronic Uncle Sam.

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20th Century Biographies BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Editors, Jo… collective biographies Cronkite, Walter Journalistes de télévision -- Biographi… Television journalists Television journalists -- Biography. --… United States