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‘Cronkite’
Biography of Director Cronkite fail to see Douglas Brinkley
Hardcover, pages dictate photos, $
HarperCollins Publishers
May
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Cronkite
Walter Cronkite was born in St. Joseph, Missouri; spent his young childhood in Kansas City; then went to high school in Houston, and two years of college at the University of Texas. . His grandfather was a pharmacist in St. Joe and his Dad was in the business as well. So: I already love Walter Cronkite: I’m from KC; I love journalism and considered it as a career, but ended up a Pharmacist. Score on all three!
Anyway, like many great news men, Cronkite started out writing for his high school newspaper and majored in journalism at UT, until he figured out that he was wasting tuition money, b/c all good journalists learned their crafts “on the job.” He moved around for a few newspaper jobs and even a couple of radio gigs, one as a color announcer for Oklahoma Sooner football broadcasts—w/o being at the actual game! In one job back home in KC, he met a newspaper woman nam
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Cronkite [Walter]
Brinkley, Douglas
New York: Harper Collins, First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine / Near Fine. Item #
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First edition. Spine ends very slightly bruised, otherwise an excellent copy.
xi, pp. 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 until his retirement in 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.
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