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A Reporter's Life

By: Walter Cronkite

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IMMEDIATELY ENGROSSING . . . [A] SPLENDID MEMOIR." --The Wall Street Journal "Run, don't walk to the nearest bookstore and treat yourself to the most heartwarming, nostalgia-producing book you will have read in many a year." --Ann Landers "Entertaining . . . The story of a modest man who succeeded extravagantly by remaining mostly himself. . . . His memoir is a short course on the flow of events in the second half of this century--events the world knows more about because of Walter Cronkite's work." --The New York Times Book Review A MAIN SELECTION OF THE BOOK-OF THE MONTH CLUB

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Ballantine Books

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034541103X

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Cronkite's War

His World War II Letters Home

By: Walter Cronkite, IV,Maurice Isserman

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Cronkite's War

His World War II Letters Home

By: Walter Cronkite, IV,Maurice Isserman

A giant in American journalism in the vanguard of "The Greatest Generation" reveals his World War II experiences in this National Geographic book. Walter Cronkite, an obscure 23-year-old United Press wire service reporter, married Betsy Maxwell on March 30, 1940, following a four-year courtship. She proved to be the love of his life, and their marriage lasted happily until her death in 2005. But before Walter and Betsy Cronkite celebrated their second anniversary, he became a credentialed war correspondent, preparing to leave her behind to go overseas. The couple spent months apart in the summer and fall of 1942, as Cronkite sailed on convoys to England and North Africa across the submarine-infested waters of the North Atlantic. After a brief December leave in New York City spent with his young wife, Cronkite left again on assignment for England. This time, the two would not be reunited until the end of the war in Europe. Cronkite would console himself during their absence by writing her long, detailed letters -- sometimes five in a week -- describing his experiences as a war correspondent, his observations of life in wartime Europe, and his longing for her. Betsy Cronkite carefully saved the letters, copying many to circulate among family and friends. More than a hundred of Cronkite's letters from 1943-45 (plus a few earlier letters) survive. They reveal surprising and little known facts about this storied public figure in the vanguard of "The Greatest Generation" and a giant in American journalism, and about his World War II experiences. They chronicle both a great love story and a great war story, as told by the reporter who would go on to become anchorman for the CBS Evening News, with a reputation as "the most trusted man in America." Illustrated with heartwarming photos of Walter and Betsy Cronkite during the war from the family collection, the book is edited by Cronkite's grandson, CBS associate producer Walter Cronkite IV, and esteemed historian Maurice Isserman, the Publius Virgilius Rogers Professor of History at Hamilton College. Now this historical portrait is new in paperback.

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National Geographic Books

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1426210205

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9781426210204

Westwind

By: Ray Ellis,Walter Cronkite

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Westwind

By: Ray Ellis,Walter Cronkite

Walter Cronkite, inveterate sailor, invites the reader on a fascinating voyage down America's western seacoast. In vivid vignettes he weaves fascinating tales with colorful anecdotes, punctuating each with insightful. 90 full-color reproductions of Ray Ellis's watercolor and oil paintings enhance Cronkite's text.

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084870763X

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9780848707637

Woodrow Wilson

By: Ann Gaines,Walter Cronkite

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Woodrow Wilson

By: Ann Gaines,Walter Cronkite

Readers will be captivated by the remarkable accomplishments and riveting personalities featured in these biographical on the United States' greatest presidents Concise writing, illustrated presidential time lines and detailed sidebars tell the inside story of the men who shaped our great nation. An informative, illustrated appendix summarizes both the office of the presidency and the individual president's life, highlighting many interesting facts certain to fascinate readers. Though he initially focused his attention on domestic policy, Wilson eventually recognized the need for the United States to become involved in World War I.

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Infobase Publishing

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1438103115

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9781438103112

Cronkite's War

His World War II Letters Home

By: Walter Cronkite, IV,Maurice Isserman

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Cronkite's War

His World War II Letters Home

By: Walter Cronkite, IV,Maurice Isserman

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Around America

A Tour of Our Magnificent Coastline

By: Walter Cronkite

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Around America

A Tour of Our Magnificent Coastline

By: Walter Cronkite

Retired "CBS News" anchor Cronkite offers this panorama of what can be seen along the coastlines from Maine to Texas, and from Washington to California. The author relates anecdotes of local color, dockside characters, and events from U.S. history. Illustrations.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393323358

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9780393323351

South by Southeast

By: Ray G. Ellis,Walter Cronkite

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South by Southeast

By: Ray G. Ellis,Walter Cronkite

A combination of words by the eminent news commentator and reproductions of oil and watercolor paintings by noted artist Ray Ellis evoke the fresh, natural beauty of an exploratory sea voyage from Chesapeake Bay to Key West

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0848705394

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9780848705398

North by Northeast

By: Ray G. Ellis,Walter Cronkite

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North by Northeast

By: Ray G. Ellis,Walter Cronkite

This first-hand account of Walter Cronkite's voyage in and out of Northeastern ports, from Cape May to the Canadian border, is enhanced by watercolor and oil paintings depicting the seacoast and its inhabitants

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0848706412

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9780848706418

Theodore Roosevelt

By: Alison Kelley,Walter Cronkite

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Theodore Roosevelt

By: Alison Kelley,Walter Cronkite

Readers will be captivated by the remarkable accomplishments and riveting personalities featured in these biographical on the United States' greatest presidents Concise writing, illustrated presidential time lines and detailed sidebars tell the inside story of the men who shaped our great nation. An informative, illustrated appendix summarizes both the office of the presidency and the individual president's life, highlighting many interesting facts certain to fascinate readers. Roosevelt proved his toughness in the Spanish-American War.

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1438103093

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9781438103099

George Washington

By: Heather Lehr Wagner,Walter Cronkite

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George Washington

By: Heather Lehr Wagner,Walter Cronkite

Presents an examination of the life and accomplishments of the first President of the United States, George Washington.

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1438103026

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9781438103020

Jimmy Carter

By: Louise Chipley Slavicek,Walter Cronkite

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Jimmy Carter

By: Louise Chipley Slavicek,Walter Cronkite

President during difficult economic times in the late 1970s, Carter supported ecology, government efficiency, and international peace agreements. He was instrumental in the Camp David Accords, which negotiated terms for peace between Israel and Egypt. Car

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1438103042

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9781438103044

Abraham Lincoln

By: Louise Chipley Slavicek,Walter Cronkite

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Abraham Lincoln

By: Louise Chipley Slavicek,Walter Cronkite

Follows the life of the greatly admired American president, from his childhood in a log cabin to his actions in the White House.

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143810300X

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9781438103006

John F. Kennedy

By: Susan Muaddi Darraj,Walter Cronkite

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John F. Kennedy

By: Susan Muaddi Darraj,Walter Cronkite

A biography of the president who saw America through the Cuban Missile Crisis, established the Peace Corps, and was assassinated during his first term.

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1438103069

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9781438103068

John Adams

By: Heather Lehr Wagner,Walter Cronkite

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John Adams

By: Heather Lehr Wagner,Walter Cronkite

A biography of the second president of the United States.

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1438103050

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9781438103051

Thomas Jefferson

By: Heather Lehr Wagner,Walter Cronkite

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Thomas Jefferson

By: Heather Lehr Wagner,Walter Cronkite

Readers will be captivated by the remarkable accomplishments and riveting personalities featured in these biographical on the United States' greatest presidents Concise writing, illustrated presidential time lines and detailed sidebars tell the inside story of the men who shaped our great nation. An informative, illustrated appendix summarizes both the office of the presidency and the individual president's life, highlighting many interesting facts certain to fascinate readers. Jefferson supported the cause of liberty, championed states' rights, and drafted the Declaration of Independence.

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1438103107

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9781438103105

Ronald Reagan

By: Heather Lehr Wagner,Walter Cronkite

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Ronald Reagan

By: Heather Lehr Wagner,Walter Cronkite

Ronald Reagan's life is a fascinating example of a man who believed America could be a great nation and then worked to make his belief come true. With his optimism, persistence, and belief in the fundamental goodness of people, President Reagan brought ho

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1438103085

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Blown to Hell

America's Deadly Betrayal of the Marshall Islanders

By: Walter Pincus

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Blown to Hell

America's Deadly Betrayal of the Marshall Islanders

By: Walter Pincus

A Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist exposes the sixty-seven US nuclear tests in the Marshall Islands that decimated a people and their land. The most important place in American nuclear history are the Marshall Islands—an idyllic Pacific paradise that served as the staging ground for over sixty US nuclear tests. It was here, from 1946 to 1958, that America perfected the weapon that preserved the peace of the post-war years. It was here—with the 1954 Castle Bravo test over Bikini Atoll—that America executed its largest nuclear detonation, a thousand times more powerful than Hiroshima. And it was here that a native people became unwilling test subjects in the first large scale study of nuclear radiation fallout when the ashes rained down on powerless villagers, contaminating the land they loved and forever changing a way of life. In Blown to Hell, Pulitzer Prize–winnng journalist Walter Pincus tells for the first time the tragic story of the Marshallese people caught in the crosshairs of American nuclear testing. From John Anjain, a local magistrate of Rongelap Atoll who loses more than most; to the radiation-exposed crew of the Japanese fishing boat the Lucky Dragon; to Dr. Robert Conard, a Navy physician who realized the dangers facing the islanders and attempted to help them; to the Washington power brokers trying to keep the unthinkable fallout from public view . . . Blown to Hell tells the human story of America’s nuclear testing program. Displaced from the only homes they had known, the native tribes that inhabited the serene Pacific atolls for millennia before they became ground zero for America’s first thermonuclear detonations returned to homes despoiled by radiation—if they were lucky enough to return at all. Others were ripped from their ancestral lands and shuttled to new islands with little regard for how the new environment supported their way of life and little acknowledgement of all they left behind. But not even the disruptive relocations allowed the islanders to escape the fallout. Praise for Blown to Hell “A shocking account of the destruction wrought by atomic bomb testing in the Marshall Islands from 1946 to 1958 . . . . Pincus makes a persuasive case that in “seeking a more powerful weapon for warfare, the U.S. unleashed death in several forms on peaceful Marshall Island people.” Readers will be appalled.” —Publishers Weekly “For more than half a century, Walter Pincus has been among our greatest reporters and most persistent truth-tellers. Blown to Hell is a story worthy of his talents—infuriating, heart-breaking, and utterly riveting.” —Rick Atkinson, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Liberation Trilogy

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Diversion Books

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1635768020

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9781635768022

John Quincy Adams

By: Martha S. Hewson,Walter Cronkite

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John Quincy Adams

By: Martha S. Hewson,Walter Cronkite

A biography of John Quincy Adams, the only former president to serve in the United States House of Representatives, whose antislavery position led him to argue the Amistad case before the Supreme Court.

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1438103077

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9781438103075

Walter's Perspective

A Memoir of Fifty Years in Chicago TV News

By: Walter Jacobson

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Walter's Perspective

A Memoir of Fifty Years in Chicago TV News

By: Walter Jacobson

This highly readable book provides a unique glimpse into the rough-and-tumble Chicago news business as seen through the eyes of one of its legendary players. From his first news job working as a legman for Daily News columnist Jack Mabley in the 1950s to his later role as a news anchor and political commentator at CBS-owned WBBM, Walter Jacobson battled along the front lines of an industry undergoing dramatic changes. While it is ultimately Jacobson’s story, a memoir of a long and distinguished (and sometimes highly controversial) career, it is also an insider’s account of the inner workings of Chicago television news, including the ratings games, the process of defining news and choosing stories, the media’s power and its failures, and the meddling by corporate and network executives. As a reporter, Jacobson was regularly contentious and confrontational. He was fired on a number of occasions and was convicted of libeling tobacco company Brown and Williamson, resulting in a multimillion-dollar federal court judgment against him and CBS. Yet it was this gutsy attitude that put him at the top of the news game. With an engaging writing style, Jacobson recollects his interactions with Chicago mayors Richard J. and Richard M. Daley, Jane Byrne, Harold Washington, and Rahm Emanuel; recounts his coverage of such fascinating news stories as the violent 1968 Democratic National Convention and the execution of convicted mass murderer John Wayne Gacy; and recalls his reporting on and interviews with Louis Farrakhan, governors George Ryan and Rod Blagojevich, and Barack Obama. More than a memoir, Walter’s Perspective is the extraordinary journey of one reporter whose distinctive career followed the changing face of Chicago’s local news.

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SIU Press

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0809331136

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9780809331130

The Deadly Bet

LBJ, Vietnam, and the 1968 Election

By: Walter LaFeber

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The Deadly Bet

LBJ, Vietnam, and the 1968 Election

By: Walter LaFeber

Lyndon Johnson made a life or death bet during his Presidential term, and lost. Intent upon fighting an extended war against a determined foe, he gambled that American society could also endure a vast array of domestic reforms. The result was the turmoil of the 1968 presidential election—a crisis more severe than any since the Civil War. With thousands killed in Vietnam, hundreds dead in civil rights riots, televised chaos at the Democratic National Convention, and two major assassinations, Americans responded by voting for the law and order message of Richard Nixon. In The Deadly Bet, distinguished historian Walter LaFeber explores the turbulent election of 1968 and its significance in the larger context of American history. Looking through the eyes of the year's most important players—including Robert F. Kennedy, Eugene McCarthy, Martin Luther King, Hubert Humphrey, Richard Nixon, George Wallace, Nguyen Van Thieu, and Lyndon Johnson—LaFeber argues that the domestic upheaval had more impact on the election than the war in Vietnam. Clear, concise, and engaging, this work sheds important light on the crucial year of 1968.

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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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0742576256

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9780742576254

The Man That Got Away

The Life and Songs of Harold Arlen

By: Walter Rimler

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The Man That Got Away

The Life and Songs of Harold Arlen

By: Walter Rimler

Over the Rainbow," "Stormy Weather," and "One for My Baby" are just a few of Harold Arlen's well-loved compositions. Yet his name is hardly known--except to the musicians who venerate him. At a gathering of songwriters George Gershwin called him "the best of us." Irving Berlin agreed. Paul McCartney sent him a fan letter and became his publisher. Bob Dylan wrote of his fascination with Arlen's "bittersweet, lonely world." A cantor's son, Arlen believed his music was from a place outside himself, a place that also sent tragedy. When his wife became mentally ill and was institutionalized he turned to alcohol. It nearly killed him. But the beautiful songs kept coming: "Blues in the Night," "My Shining Hour," "Come Rain or Come Shine," and "The Man That Got Away." Walter Rimler drew on interviews with friends and associates of Arlen and on newly available archives to write this intimate portrait of a genius whose work is a pillar of the Great American Songbook.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252097572

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9780252097577

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