A Reporter's Life
10 best books like A Reporter's Life (Walter Cronkite): Writings: The Autobiography / Poor Richard’s Almanack / Bagatelles, Pamphlets, Essays & Letters, A Good Life: Newspapering and Other Adventures, And So It Goes: Adventures in Television, Rousseau's Dog: Two Great Thinkers at War in the Age of Enlightenment, On the Road with Charles Kuralt, John Stuart Mill: Victorian Firebrand, Harry S. Truman, Reagan's America: Innocents at Home, Commodify Your Dissent: Salvos from The Baffler, Ready, Steady, Go!: The Smashing Rise and Giddy Fall of Swinging London
| Author | Benjamin Franklin |
| ISBN | 0940450291 |
Note: When first issued, the Library of America edition of Franklin's Writings was collected in one large volume; later, it was published as two separate volumes.
The library of America is dedicated to publishing America's best and most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes,...
A Good Life: Newspapering and Other Adventures
| Author | Ben Bradlee |
| ISBN | 0684825236 |
The first 8 chapters of this, up to about p. 200, are super boring. This includes Bradlee's Waspy upbringing amongst the Boston (Brahmin) Crowninshields, his years at Harvard, the months in the Navy during World War II, the first marriage to Jean Saltonstall of the Boston Brahmin Saltonstalls, the...
And So It Goes: Adventures in Television
| Author | Linda Ellerbee |
| ISBN | 0425102378 |
Linda Ellerbee (born Linda Jane Smith) is a journalist who is most known for several jobs at NBC News, including Washington (DC) correspondent, and reporter and co-anchor of NBC News Overnight, which was recognized by the duPont Columbia Awards as "the best written and most intelligent news program...
In 1766 philosopher, novelist, composer, and political provocateur Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a fugitive, decried by his enemies as a dangerous madman. Meanwhile David Hume—now recognized as the foremost philosopher in the English language—was being universally lauded as a paragon of decency....
| Author | Charles Kuralt |
| ISBN | 0449007405 |
"Read Kuralt's words and discover America with him."
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He has entertained and informed us about ourselves on television for years. Taking to the highways, he has met the little-known and the famous, and shared them with the rest of us. This heartwarming book reminds...
| Author | Richard V. Reeves |
| ISBN | 1843546434 |
The definitive life of John Stuart Mill, one of the heroic giants of Victorian England
Richard Reeves' sparkling new biography can be read as an attempt to do justice to this eminent thinker, and it succeeds triumphantly. He reveals Mill as a man of action—a philosopher and radical MP...
| Author | Margaret Truman |
| ISBN | 0380721120 |
It was refreshing to read about a President, from the perspective of a Daughter, you can tell that she adores her father. the book is filled with letters and document backing up her theories and conclusions. She is very biased about her fathers history and record, but the facts are well researched and...
| Author | Garry Wills |
| ISBN | 0140296077 |
Ronald Reagan achieved magical accord with the American people, attuning them to his moral vision of a nation made up of optimistic individualists, tough yet God-fearing, blessed with a special destiny. In Reagan's America, Pulitzer Prize winning author and historian Garry Wills seeks to understand...
| Author | Thomas Frank |
| ISBN | 0393316734 |
In the "old" Gilded Age, the barons of business accumulated vast wealth and influence from their railroads, steel mills, and banks. But today it is culture that stands at the heart of the American enterprise, mass entertainment the economic dynamo that brings the public into the consuming fold and...
| Author | Shawn Levy |
| ISBN | 0385498578 |
It’s the summer of 1966... The fundamental old ways: chastity, rationality, harmony, sobriety, even democracy: blasted to nothing or crumbling under siege. The city glows. It echoes. It pulses. It bleeds pastel and fuzzy, spicy, paisley and soft. This is how it's always going to be: smashing clothes,...
| Author | Joseph Frank |
| ISBN | 0691014221 |
Este libro es una colección de 5 libros de la biografía de Dovstoievski. Siendo éste el segundo tomo ya que no encontré el primero. Nos habla de sus años en la cárcel debido a asociaciones con personas equivocadas, no es que fuese un ladronzuelo de poca monta. El tiempo que estuvo en la cárcel siempre...
| Author | Helen Thomas |
| ISBN | 0684868091 |
I'm still here, still arriving at the White House in the wee hours of the morning, reading the papers and checking the wire, still waiting for the morning briefing, still sitting down to write the first story of the day and still waiting to ask the tough questions.
From the woman who has reported...
Between You and Me: A Memoir
| Author | Mike Wallace |
| ISBN | 1401300294 |
At the age of 87, Mike Wallace is a legendary figure in broadcast journalism. Now, after 60 years of reporting on important events around the world, he shares his personal stories about the incredible range of celebrities, newsmakers, criminals, and world leaders who have subjected themselves to...
“I’ve got the name for our publishing operation. We just said we were going to publish a few books on the side at random. Let’s call it Random House.” So recounts Bennett Cerf in this wonderfully amusing memoir of the making of a great publishing house. An incomparable raconteur, possessed of...
| Author | Stanley Cloud |
| ISBN | 0395877539 |
Publishers Weekly described The Murrow Boys as "a lively, colloquial history of broadcast journalism that is so exciting one's impulse is to read it in a single sitting." It tells the swashbuckling tale of Edward R. Murrow and his legendary band of CBS radio journalists - Charles Collingwood, Howard...
When President Dwight Eisenhower left Washington, D.C., at the end of his second term, he retired to a farm in historic Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, that he had bought a decade earlier. Living on the farm with the former president and his wife, Mamie, were his son, daughter-in-law, and four grandchildren,...
| Author | Alan Moorehead |
| ISBN | 0881843318 |
WW II's abrupt end brought us many gifts, none stranger than the papers of the German State. These were captured virtually complete, and to this day give up secrets. One that emerges from Alan Moorehead's research is the extent to which Germany was involved in the Russian Revolution. The ironic result...
Barbara Jordan: American Hero
| Author | Mary Beth Rogers |
| ISBN | 0553380664 |
Barbara Jordan was the first African American to serve in the Texas Senate since Reconstruction, the first black woman elected to Congress from the South, and the first to deliver the keynote address at a national party convention. Yet Jordan herself remained a mystery, a woman so private that even...
This Just in: What I Couldn't Tell You on TV
| Author | Bob Schieffer |
| ISBN | 0425194337 |
Bob Schieffer started his reporting career in Texas when he was barely old enough to buy a beer, joined CBS News in 1969, and became one of the few correspondents ever to have covered all four major Washington beats: the White House, the Pentagon, the State Department, and Capitol Hill. Over the past four...
Plain Speaking: an Oral Biography of Harry S Truman
| Author | Merle Miller |
| ISBN | 0425026647 |
The Washington columnist Mary McGrory once wrote, " Since Harry Truman left town almost nobody has spoken his mind. Mr. Truman took the tradition of plain speaking back to Missouri with him."
Fortunately for history, Merle Miller followed. In the early 1960s, as preparation for a ill-fated...
The Roosevelts: An American Saga
The Roosevelts is a brilliant and controversial account of twentieth-century American political culture as seen through the lens of its preeminent political dynasty. Peter Collier shows how Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt, along with their descendants, scrambled to define the direction that...
Peter Jennings: A Reporter's Life
| Author | Kate Darnton |
| ISBN | 1586485172 |
Peter Jennings was the sole anchor of ABC's World News Tonight from 1983 until his death from cancer in 2005. For many Americans, he was the voice and face that gave shape and meaning to every day's news. But who was Peter Jennings really? In this absorbing biography, readers will get to know Jennings through...
| Author | Gay Talese |
| ISBN | 0679410961 |
The inner workings of a writer’s life, the interplay between experience and writing, are brilliantly recounted by a master of the art. Gay Talese now focuses on his own life—the zeal for the truth, the narrative edge, the sometimes startling precision, that won accolades for his journalism and...
| Author | Russell Baker |
| ISBN | 0517126117 |
In this sequel to GROWING UP, Russell Baker relates the striving of his early career and contrasts it to the country's sunny years under Truman, Eisenhower and Kennedy. Baker rose steadily, from newsboy to college paper, from police reporter to rewrite man, from White House correspondent to Washington...
His Name is Ron: Our Search for Justice
| Author | The Goldman Family |
| ISBN | 0688151175 |
I read this book on one of my first cross country train trips in 1998 so I became immersed in Ron’s life and murder. Getting to know him through his family’s eyes was quite different from reading books based on the pov of the murders.
We get to know Ron as a young man who is living and enjoying life...
