For over a quarter of a century, award-winning journalist Henry
Bradsher reported stories from around the world. In this lively and
engaging account, Bradsher recounts episodes from a distinguished
career that took him to the Himalayas, the jungles of Bhutan,
Kremlin caviar receptions, China's Forbidden City, and the
battlefields of Vietnam. Throughout, Bradsher emphasizes the
unpredictability of a correspondent's life and the strains, perils,
and privileges of standing witness to momentous world events. In
South Asia, Bradsher reported the Dalai Lama's escape from Tibet in
1959 and the last five years that Jawaharlal Nehru led India- with
a side trip to hunt tigers in Nepal with Queen Elizabeth. In Moscow
he covered the downfall of Nikita Khrushchev, and he later suffered
the KGB bombing of his car in response to his tenacious reporting.
His incisive coverage from Hong Kong led Chinese officials to label
Bradsher as ""the most despicable"" journalist. But after a power
shift, they welcomed him as the first American journalist allowed
to work in China in over a year. Bradsher predicted and reported
Bangladesh's independence struggle, and he worked in the Middle
East, covering Egyptian-Israeli peace arrangements. Access to the
events that shaped the Cold War also led to Bradsher's meeting many
world leaders, including Nehru, Khrushchev, Leonid Brezhnev, Zhou
Enlai, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan,
Anwar Sadat, and Menachem Begin. Although Bradsher's reporting
riled officials in Moscow, Beijing, and even the United States-
prompting Henry Kissinger's attempts to thwart the publication of
his reports- history has proven its accuracy. Bradsher's
relentlessness in his own work accompanied a profound respect for
fellow journalists worldwide who endanger themselves to keep the
public informed.
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