| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 337 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, portraits |
| Contents |
1. Joining a "Band of Brothers -- 2. CBS's "Specialist on Soviet Affairs -- 3. Broadcasting's One Thing, Writing's Another -- 4. A Book, A Documentary, and a New Idea -- 5. The Russians Are Coming -- 6. The Sino-Soviet Alliance: Mysteries, Puzzles, and Enigmas -- 7. Around the World in 100 Days-Part One -- 8. Around the World-Part Two -- 9. A Dream Come True -- 10. The Paris Summit: Ike vs. Nikita -- 11. ... And, Finally, Moscow -- 12. Censors, Circuits, and Double Beds -- 13. Bargaining with Bureaucrats -- 14. The "Pigeon" Lost in My Pasternak Adventure -- 15. Do Svidaniia -- 16. Saying No to Murrow? |
| Summary |
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 |
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Includes index |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR platform, viewed July 25, 2022) |
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Kalb, Marvin L.
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Kalb, Marvin L. fast |
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Journalists -- United States -- Biography
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Journalists -- United States -- 20th century -- Biography
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Television journalists -- United States -- Biography
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Television journalists -- United States -- 20th century -- Biography
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Cold War.
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Cold War in mass media.
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Cold War (1945-1989) in mass media
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Journalists
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Television journalists
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United States
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autobiographies (literary works)
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Autobiographies
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Biographies
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Autobiographies.
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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Autobiographies.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780815738978 |
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0815738978 |
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