Cronkite. ([2012])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Douglas Brinkley.
• Other Names: Brinkley, Douglas
• Contents: The making of a reporter. Missouri boy ; Houston youth ; Learning a trade ; Making of a unipresser -- The Second World War. Gearing up for Europe ; The writing Sixty-ninth ; Dean of the air war ; Gliding to V-E Day ; From the Nuremberg Trials to Russia -- Cold War broadcaster. Infancy of TV news ; Election night and UNIVAC ; Mr. CBS utility man ; The Huntley and Brinkley challenge ; Torch is passed ; New space frontier on CBS -- Anchorman. Anchorman of Camelot ; The Kennedy assassination ; Who's afraid of the Nielsen Ratings? ; Paley's attempted smackdown ; Civil rights and Project Gemini ; What to do about Vietnam? ; The Tet Offensive -- Top game. Calm and chaos of 1968 ; Mr. Moon Shot ; Avatar of Earth Day ; The Nixon-versus-CBS war ; Reportable truth in the age of Nixon ; Fan clubs, stalkers, and political good-byes ; A time to heal ; Live with Jimmy Carter -- The spokesperson. Retirement blues ; Struggling elder statesman ; Defiant liberal ; "The world's oldest reporter" ; The new millennium ; Electronic Uncle Sam.
• Publisher Details: New York : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
• Publication Date: 2012
• Extent: 1 online resource (xi, 819 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 070.4092; Television journalists -- United States -- Biography; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Editors, Journalists, Publishers; 20th Century; Television journalists; United States; Electronic books; Biography
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780062196637; 0062196634
• Related ISBNs: 9780061374265; 0061374261
• Notes: Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.