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In this powerful memoir, Harry Rosenfeld describes his years as an editor at the New York Herald Tribune and the Washington Post, two of the greatest American newspapers in the second half of the turbulent twentieth century. After playing key roles at the Herald Tribune as it battled fiercely for its survival, he joined the Post under the leadership of Ben Bradlee and Katharine Graham as they were building the paper's national reputation. As the Post's Metropolitan editor, Rosenfeld managed Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein as they broke the Watergate story, overseeing the paper's standard-setting coverage that eventually earned it the Pulitzer Prize Gold Medal for Public Service. In describing his complicated relationship with Bradlee and offering an insider's perspective on the unlikely partnership of Woodward and Bernstein, Rosenfeld depicts the tensions and challenges, triumphs and setbacks that accompanied the Post's key role in Watergate, the most potent political scandal in America's history.
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About the Author: Harry Rosenfeld spent his working life as a newspaperman--editor, war correspondent, columnist. Retired since 1998, he is a consultant to the Times Union of Albany and continues as a member of its editorial board. He had been recruited in 1978 to be the first editor of two Hearst Albany newspapers, the morning Times Union and the afternoon Knickerbocker News. A Sunday column he wrote as editor and continued for many years in retirement, was distributed nationally. Before Albany, Rosenfeld was an Assistant Managing Editor of The Washington Post in charge of the Watergate expose. In twelve years at The Post, Rosenfeld also headed the foreign, national and book reviews and opinion sections.Rosenfeld began his newspaper career at The New York Herald Tribune and eventually served as Managing Editor of the Herald Tribune News Service and as Foreign Editor of the paper. Rosenfeld was chosen as a Pulitzer juror four times and was elected to twelve terms as Vice Chairman of the New York State Conference on Fair Trial/Free Press. He served on three New York State Commissions studying the use of cameras in the courts as well as on one that prescribed library reforms to meet 21st Century needs. Rosenfeld was the first recipient of the Distinguished Alumni Award established by Syracuse University's College of Arts and Sciences. He was honored with the First Amendment Award of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith in Los Angeles for Watergate as well as the Freedom of Information Award from the Associated Press.Other awards include one from the Black United Front of Washington, D.C., another from the New York State Martin Luther King Jr. Commission and Institute for Non-Violence. Albany's Maimonides School honored him with its Dr. Morton Berger Memorial Award. Born in Berlin, Germany in 1929, he emigrated to the U.S. with his family in May, 1939. He was graduated from Stuyvesant High School in New York City and from Syracuse University in 1952 with a B.A. in American Literature. He did graduate studies at Columbia University in public policy and international relations. A veteran of the Korean War, he attained the rank of corporal and served as a military historian. Married to Anne Hahn since 1953, they have three daughters and seven grandchildren.To see a list of author events, go to www.harryrosenfeldmemoir.com
