Cronkite / Douglas Brinkley.
Offers a candid look at the renowned, yet fiercely private, journalist and news anchor who reported on some of the biggest stories of the twentieth century.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780061374265
- ISBN: 0061374261
- Physical Description: xi, 819 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition: First edition
- Publisher: New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2012]
Content descriptions
- General Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [691]-774) and index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- 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.
Search for related items by subject
- Subject:
- Cronkite, Walter.
Television journalists > United States > Biography. - Genre:
- Biographies.
Available copies
- 34 of 34 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Brown Library System.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 34 total copies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| George H. & Laura E. Brown Library | B Cro (Text) | 30308100979013 | Adult Biography | Available | - |
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