A Reporter’s Life

Book Description:

Cronkite’s prose has the same stately cadences as that famous voice, reinforcing the grandfatherly persona that made him America’s most trusted anchorman until his retirement in 1981. He also has a dry sense of humor, so his memoirs are dignified rather than pompous. Chapters on the early days of radio and television broadcasting are colorful; the more episodic later portions contain some good anecdotes, plus a frank account of Cronkite’s dismay at the direction CBS News took under Van Gordon Sauter. Just the book you’d expect from Uncle Walter.

"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
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