Bibliograph

Chasing history, a kid in the newsroom, Carl Bernstein

Type

Label

Chasing history, a kid in the newsroom, Carl Bernstein

Language

eng

resource.biographical

autobiography

Illustrations

platesillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Chasing history

Oclc number

1290245747

Responsibility statement

Carl Bernstein

Series statement

Thorndike Press large print biography and memoir

Sub title

a kid in the newsroom

Summary

"In this triumphant memoir, Carl Bernstein, the Pulitzer Prize-winning coauthor of All the President's Men and pioneer of investigative journalism, recalls his beginnings as an audacious teenage newspaper reporter in the nation's capital--a winning tale of scrapes, gumshoeing, and American bedlam. In 1960, Bernstein was just a sixteen-year-old at considerable risk of failing to graduate high school. Inquisitive, self-taught--and, yes, truant--Bernstein landed a job as a copyboy at the Evening Star, the afternoon paper in Washington. By nineteen, he was a reporter there. In Chasing History: A Kid in the Newsroom, Bernstein recalls the origins of his storied journalistic career as he chronicles the Kennedy era, the swelling civil rights movement, and a slew of grisly crimes. He spins a buoyant, frenetic account of educating himself in what Bob Woodward describes as "the genius of perpetual engagement." Funny and exhilarating, poignant and frank, Chasing History is an extraordinary memoir of life on the cusp of adulthood for a determined young man with a dogged commitment to the truth"--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Prologue -- The door -- Adrenaline -- Initiation -- Knowledge -- Dry run -- Legman -- Warthog -- Night beat -- Hot type -- Inaugural -- Misfit -- Lift-off -- Dictation -- Local news -- Crises -- Off campus -- Ambition -- America -- Monumental -- Growing up -- Civil rights -- Summer -- Ford Holabird -- General assignment -- The wheel -- Flack -- Leavings -- Epilogue

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