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Author Brinkley, Douglas.

Title Cronkite / Douglas Brinkley.

Publication Info. New York : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2012]
©2012

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  92 CRONKITE    Check Shelf
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Biographies  92 BIOGRAPHY CRONKITE    Check Shelf
 Bloomfield at the Atrium  BIOG. CRONKITE, W.    Check Shelf
 Bloomfield, Prosser Library - Adult Department  BIOG. CRONKITE, W.    Storage
 Bristol, Manross Branch - Non Fiction  B CRONKITE c.2  Check Shelf
 Burlington Public Library - Adult Department  B CRONKITE    Check Shelf
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  BIO CRONKITE    Check Shelf
 Cromwell-Belden Public Library - Adult Department  B CRONKITE    Check Shelf
 East Windsor, Library Association of Warehouse Point - Adult Department  B CRONKITE BRI    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Biographies  B CRONKITE    Check Shelf

Edition First edition.
Description xi, 819 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Note Includes index.
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.
Summary Douglas Brinkley presents the definitive, revealing biography of an American legend: renowned news anchor Walter Cronkite.
Subject Cronkite, Walter.
Television journalists -- United States -- Biography.
ISBN 9780061374265 hardback $34.99
0061374261 hardback
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