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Assignment Russia - Becoming a Foreign Correspondent in the Crucible of the Cold War (Hardcover)
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Assignment Russia - Becoming a Foreign Correspondent in the Crucible of the Cold War (Hardcover)
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A personal journey through some of the darkest moments of the cold
war and the early days of television news.Marvin Kalb, the
award-winning journalist who has written extensively about the
world he reported on during his long career, now turns his eye on
the young man who became that journalist. Chosen by legendary
broadcaster Edward R. Murrow to become one of what came to be known
as the Murrow Boys, Kalb in this newest volume of his memoirs takes
readers back to his first days as a journalist, and what also were
the first days of broadcast news. Kalb captures the excitement of
being present at the creation of a whole new way of bringing news
immediately to the public. And what news. Cold War tensions were
high between Eisenhower's America and Khrushchev's Soviet Union.
Kalb is at the center, occupying a unique spot as a student of
Russia tasked with explaining Moscow to Washington and the American
public. He joins a cast of legendary figures along the way, from
Murrow himself to Eric Severeid, Howard K. Smith, Richard Hottelet,
Charles Kuralt, and Daniel Schorr among many others. He finds
himself assigned as Moscow correspondent of CBS News just as the U2
incident-the downing of a US spy plane over Russian territory-is
unfolding. As readers of his first volume, The Year I Was Peter the
Great, will recall, being the right person, in the right place, at
the right time found Kalb face to face with Khrushchev. DATELINE
MOSCOW sees Kalb once again an eyewitness to history-and a writer
and analyst who has helped shape the first draft of that history.
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