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Murrow, his life and times /

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Freundlich Books, �1986.Description: xx, 795 pages, [32] pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0881910082
  • 9780881910087
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Online version:: Murrow, his life and times.DDC classification:
  • 070/.924 B 19
LOC classification:
  • PN4874.M89 S6 1986
Contents:
Prologue: "I have no hope whatever ..." -- The heretics -- "Egg" -- New York -- 860 on your dial -- Anschluss -- The steamroller -- Trial by fire -- Total war -- Decompression -- "Investigate, intimidate, and ... legislate" -- 1950 -- See it now -- "The fault, dear Brutus" -- Upright on the treadmill -- " ... to love the news" -- Washington -- Twilight.
Summary: A biography of America's first broadcast journalist who, at age 29, became the prototype of a species new to communications--the radio correspondent.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Vol info Copy number Status Barcode
BIOG BIOG Chamberlin Free Public Library Nonfiction B MUR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) PN4874.M89 S6 1986 1 Available 34562000026533

Includes bibliographical references (pages 707-767) and index.

Prologue: "I have no hope whatever ..." -- The heretics -- "Egg" -- New York -- 860 on your dial -- Anschluss -- The steamroller -- Trial by fire -- Total war -- Decompression -- "Investigate, intimidate, and ... legislate" -- 1950 -- See it now -- "The fault, dear Brutus" -- Upright on the treadmill -- " ... to love the news" -- Washington -- Twilight.

A biography of America's first broadcast journalist who, at age 29, became the prototype of a species new to communications--the radio correspondent.

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