A Reporter's Life
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.19 (803 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 034541103X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 384 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-11-09 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Kindle Customer J Hope said Walter Cronkite. A Reporter's Life is a very well written story of Walter Cronkite's life and adventures as a reporter for various organizations, usually CBS. He uses words well and tells a very interesting history of his time as a reporter. He seems to have been a very adventurous man and never passed up a chance to attempt something new, though dangerous. He is humorous, accurate and, seemingly, modest. If you lived your life during the period he tells about you will feel a great amount of nostalgia. Mr. Cronkite met and interviewed, or just talked with, many people whose names you will recogniz. "Good information." according to moe. Well done. Good information.. Interesting, but not edited well This book was full of historical stuff + interesting stories about Mr. Cronkite's life. My only complaint is the book jumps around too much. It should have started out with Mr. Cronkite's birth and gone on chronologically from there.All the jumping around made me confused.
"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"Entertaining The story of a modest man who succeeded extravagantly by remaining mostly himself. His memoir is a short course on the flow of events in the second half of this century--events the world knows more about because of Walter Cronkite's work."--The New York Times Book ReviewA MAIN SELECTION OF THE BOOK-OF THE MONTH CLUB
Chapters on the early days of radio and television broadcasting are colorful; the more episodic later portions contain some good anecdotes, plus a frank account of Cronkite's dismay at the direction CBS News took under Van Gordon Sauter. Cronkite's prose has the same stately cadences as that famous voice, reinforcing the grandfatherly persona that made him America's most trusted anchorman until his retirement in 1981. . He also has a dry sense of humor, so his memoirs are dignified rather than pompous. Just the book you'd expect from Uncle Walter