Cronkite
Item details
- ISBN: 9780061374265 (hardback)
- ISBN: 0061374261 (hardback)
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Physical Description:
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xi, 819 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2012]
Contents / Notes
General Note: | Includes index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | I. The making of a reporter: -- Missouri boy -- Houston youth -- Learning a trade -- Making of a unipresser; -- II. 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; -- III. 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; -- IV. 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; -- V. 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; -- VI. The spokesperson: -- Retirement blues -- Struggling elder statesman -- Defiant liberal -- "The world's oldest reporter" -- The new millennium -- Electronic Uncle Sam. |
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Subject: | Cronkite, Walter Television journalists United States Biography BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Editors, Journalists, Publishers |
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Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | |
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Clayton County Library System: Forest Park Branch |
070.4 CRONKITE WALTER (
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31012004244719 | STACKS | Available | |
Clayton County Library System: Headquarters Library |
070.4 CRONKITE, WALTER (
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