He has been called the most trusted man in America. His 60-year-long 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 1[...]
"IMMEDIATELY ENGROSSING . . . [A] SPLENDID MEMOIR."
--The Wall Street Journal
"Run, don't walk to the nearest bookstore and treat yourself to the most heartwarming, nostalgia-producing book you will have read in many a year."
--Ann Landers
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"A book every modern journalist--and citizen--should read."--Tom Brokaw, Author of The Greatest Generation In February 1943, a group of journalists--including a young wire service correspondent named Walter Cronkite and cub reporter Andy Rooney--clamored to fly along on a bombing raid over Nazi Germ[...]
Writing in riveting detail about their personal experiences with corporate efforts to kill their controversial stories and their careers, nearly two dozen print and TV journalists present devastating essays about the dangerous state of American journalism today.[...]
This fall will see the release of the first in an annual series of two-volume boxed sets (1950-1952 and 1953-1954) at a reduced price.[...]