Those who report the news sometimes ARE the news.
A Reporter's Life, by Walter Cronkite (HC, 1996, $3) -- SOLD
"Anchorman " as a term was originally coined to describe Walter Cronkite. He started "reporting" the news when at age three he ran down the street shouting the news of President Harding's death. When he was six he started selling papers, and his mother worried. In high school, shin splints kept him from the track team, so he became the campus newspaper's sports editor. This started a career that took him from Nuremberg to the Kennedy assassination. In his spare time he loved to race cars. Now that was the time for his mother to really worry! Come read his story.
Among Those Present: A Reporter's View of Twenty-five Years in Washington, by Nancy Dickerson (HC, 1976, $2.50)
Nancy Dickerson, educated in a Wisconsin convent, was hired to work for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, JUST when Sen. McCarthy started to attack it. Nancy, welcome to the ugliness of the real world! Later she would move to CBS and television reporting, eventually breaking many of the huge gender barriers of the time.
Fat Man in a Middle Seat: Forty Years of Covering Politics, by Jack W. Germond (HC, 1999, $3)
Germond reported on them all, Rockefeller, Nixon, McCarthy and McGovern, as well as Carter, Reagan and Bill Clinton, but it is the other stuff he writes about that makes this book special. Read about the real life of a reporter, sitting in the middle seat of a red-eye flight from LA, the "countless late nights in bars, rides on campaign planes, and off-the-record briefings and strategy sessions- the real stuff of politics".
Out of Thin Air: The Brief Wonderful Life of Network News, by Reuven Frank, the former president of NBC News ( HC, 1991, $3)
"When Reuven Frank signed on as a news writer for NBC-TV in 1950, network television was less than two years old. No one from NBC's radio news staff wanted the job- TV news wasn't expected to last." Frank goes on to bring the news intimately into America's living rooms, to pair Huntley with Brinkley, and to win seven Emmys.
Maxine Cheshire, Reporter, by Maxine Cheshire (HC, 1978, ex-lib., $1)
"Maxine Cheshire wanted to be a lawyer when she grew up; her father wanted her to be a Southern bell. Instead, she became an award-winning journalist for the Washington Post, [and] twice nominated for the Pulitzer Prize."
Look for these books on the new non-fiction table.
(this blog will be continued....)
