Cronkite
Record details
- ISBN: 9780061374265
- ISBN: 0061374261
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Physical Description:
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xi, 819 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm - Publisher: New York : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2012]
Content descriptions
General Note: | Publisher, publishing date and paging may vary. Includes index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | I. The making of a reporter: -- Missouri boy -- Houston youth -- Learning a trade -- Making of a unipresser; -- II. 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; -- III. 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; -- IV. 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; -- V. 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; -- VI. The spokesperson: -- Retirement blues -- Struggling elder statesman -- Defiant liberal -- "The world's oldest reporter" -- The new millennium -- Electronic Uncle Sam. |
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Subject: | Cronkite, Walter Television journalists United States Biography |
Available copies
- 18 of 18 copies available at Missouri Evergreen. (Show)
- 2 of 2 copies available at Camden County Library.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 18 total copies.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Camden County Library District - Camdenton | Biography CRONKITE (Text) | 31320003045650 | Adult Biography | Available | - |
Camden County Library District - Osage Beach | Biography CRONKITE (Text) | 31320003045692 | Adult Biography | Available | - |