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Cronkite (Paperback)
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For decades, Walter Cronkite was known as the most trusted man in
America. Millions across the nation welcomed him into their homes,
first as a print reporter for the United Press on the front lines
of World War II, and later, in the emerging medium of television,
as a host of numerous documentary programs and as anchor of the CBS
Evening News, from 1962 until his retirement in 1981. Yet this very
public figure, undoubtedly the twentieth century's most revered
journalist, was a remarkably private man; few know the full story
of his life. Drawing on unprecedented access to Cronkite's private
papers as well as interviews with his family and friends, Douglas
Brinkley now brings this American icon into focus as never before.
Brinkley traces Cronkite's story from his roots in Missouri and
Texas through the Great Depression, during which he began his
career, to World War II, when he gained notice reporting with
Allied troops from North Africa, D-day, and the Battle of the
Bulge. In 1950, Edward R. Murrow recruited him to work for CBS,
where he covered presidential elections, the space program,
Vietnam, and the first televised broadcasts of the Olympic Games,
as both a reporter and later as an anchor for the evening news.
Cronkite was also witness to - and the nation's voice for - many of
the most profound moments in modern American history, including the
Kennedy assassination, Apollos 11 and 13, Watergate, the Vietnam
War, and the Iran hostage crisis. Epic, intimate, and masterfully
written, Cronkite is the biography of an extraordinary American
life, told by one of our most brilliant and respected historians.
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