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LEADER: 02979cam 2200481Ia 4500
001 ocn813286535
003 OCoLC
005 20200903050409.0
008 121017s2013 nyuac b 001 0beng d
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050 4 $aPN4874.C84$bB75 2013
082 04 $a070.4092
100 1 $aBrinkley, Douglas.
245 10 $aCronkite /$cDouglas Brinkley.
250 $a1st Harper Perennial ed.
260 $aNew York :$bHarper Perennial,$c2013.
300 $aix, 819 pages :$billustrations ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 691-772) and index.
505 0 $aI. 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.
520 $aOffers 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.
600 10 $aCronkite, Walter.
600 17 $aCronkite, Walter.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00042972
650 0 $aTelevision journalists$zUnited States$vBiography.
650 7 $aTelevision journalists.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01146949
651 7 $aUnited States.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01204155
650 7 $aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Editors, Journalists, Publishers.$2bisacsh
655 7 $aBiographies.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01919896
938 $aBrodart$bBROD$n103649387
938 $aBaker and Taylor$bBTCP$nBK0012333392
938 $aYBP Library Services$bYANK$n9818247
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