A Reporter's Life
By Walter Cronkite (Read by); Walter Cronkite
(Random House Audio, Audio Cassette, Abridged, 9780679458142)
Publication Date: November 27, 1996
Other Editions of This Title: Paperback, Hardcover
Categories: Entertainment & Performing Arts - Television Personalities, Literary
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4 cassettes / 4 hours
Read by the Author
Also available on CD
He has been called the most trusted man in America. His 60-year journalistic career has spanned the Great Depression, several wars, and the extraordinary changes that have engulfed our nation over the last two-thirds of the 20th century. When Walter Cronkite advised his television audience in 1968 that the war in Vietnam could not be won, President Lyndon B. Johnson said: "If I've lost Cronkite, I've lost middle America."
Here is Cronkite's remarkable autobiography: his growing up in Kansas City and Houston; his service as a war correspondent for United Press; his plunge into television when it was still an infant industry; his rise to anchorman of The CBS Evening News and its eventual dominance of the airwaves. Here is Cronkite covering space shots, political conventions, a coronation, the assassinations of the Kennedys and King. Here are Cronkite's portraits of presidents, his behind-the-scenes tales of politics and broadcasting, his vigorous views on the future of television and the presentation of news.
Walter Cronkite has been called the most trusted man in American. His journalistic career has spanned six decades.
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