- Taschenbuch: 400 Seiten
- Verlag: Ballantine Books; Auflage: 1st Ballantine Books Ed (28. Oktober 1997)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 034541103X
- ISBN-13: 978-0345411037
- Vom Hersteller empfohlenes Alter: 14 - 18 Jahre
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 13,7 x 2,2 x 21 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 3.6 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (20 Kundenrezensionen)
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 179.233 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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If you're looking for something in between Charles Dickens and James Thurber, try Walter Cronkite's A Reporter's Life. This humble but very exciting autobiography is full of interesting characters and lightly told anecdotes. (Early on in the narrative, young Cronkite recalls running from a cigar store, where he has surreptitiously memorized box scores, down the street to the radio station where he can report them over his daily news broadcast.) The full, even tones of Cronkite's voice rise to describe the best fight he'd ever seen on a movie screen and fall to recall the day John Kennedy died. A hundred years of American history are offered with refreshing color and candor, a tale many may only know as a semester-long drone in high school. The audio version of A Reporter's Life has the advantage of Cronkite's famously unassuming voice, perfectly suited to the weight and manner of prose that delights with understatement. Cronkite's affections, both for his wife and for his own success, are tempered with charming modesty. He delivers keen and respectful observations of U.S. presidents and other heads of state that he has worked with, as though they were simply colleagues he has known through the years. For example, when Walter Cronkite returned from Vietnam after the Tet Offensive, he announced on national television that he deemed the war to be a stalemate, after which President Johnson is said to have turned off the set and said, "Well, we've lost middle America."
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In the 15 years since Cronkite retired from The CBS Evening News anchor desk, the print and electronic media have experienced unimaginable changes. Readers with fond memories of Uncle Walter's days at the helm will not be surprised that he has strong opinions about these changes, and he delivers them firmly but gracefully in the course of these reminiscences. Few '90s broadcasters have the time to develop a "voice" that listeners can recognize and identify within a paragraph or two: Cronkite was one of the last TV newspeople with both the editorial control and the journalistic skill to establish an ever-so-familiar style. Longtime fans will no doubt "hear" Cronkite telling them--in trademark Cronkite style, like a slightly formal conversation--about his midwestern childhood, marriage, and family and dozens of stories he's covered over a long, distinguished career. Cronkite's seen plenty in his nearly 80 years: from semirural Missouri and Kansas to Houston as a cub reporter, then to Europe during World War II and Moscow after the war, to various hotspots of the world as well as the halls of political and media power in Washington and New York. A Reporter's Life is generous (though never gossipy) with the details. A Book-of-the-Month Club main selection; expect requests. Mary Carroll
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Although an avid reader of biographies, I am usually not a fan of memoirs that incorporate events of history. I usually find them far too dry and uninteresting with their rigid, chronological structure. A REPORTER'S LIFE by Walter Cronkite, however, is a rare exception. Cronkite narrates his own personal history while touching on many of the most significant events and people of the past 50+ years. Cronkite does so in a engaging and page-turning narrative.
As seen through the eyes of perhaps the most respected and trusted reporter of this century, events such as our involvement in war, particularly Vietnam and the division of our country over it, Watergate, the Nuremberg trials, South Africa, Communism, the first steps toward peace between Egypt and Israel, the beginnings of the Civil Rights movement, the assassination of John Kennedy, the NASA space program, and many more are given a more personal, and sometimes different, perspective than the "history" we have come to know or have been led to believe.
The Kennedys, Menachem Begin, Anwar Sadat, Martin Luther King, Jr., George Patton, Jimmy Hoffa, Neil Armstrong, Rosa Parks, Adolf Hitler, and our presidents: from FDR to George Bush, are just a few of the many figures to be found here. Cronkite not only recounts stories about them, but in many cases gives us heretofore unknown and sometimes surprising insights into these colorful and complex personalities.
I found each of his recollections about these important people and events in history both absorbing and entertaining. Having personally reported on all these events, Cronkite is able to make them come much more alive and make them far more interesting than any typical history book's dry recital of facts and dates.
But it is Cronkite's personal history of the development of media journalism, and his own career in it, that makes for the more compelling story. From his beginnings as a newspaper boy, to newspaper reporter, radio announcer, becoming the first news "anchor" for the CBS Evening News, to the sad state journalism is in danger of becoming, as news stations are taken over by corporate conglomerates, more interested in "entertaining" the public in an effort for higher ratings and profits, than in educating and informing said public, we follow both the neophyte journalism student and newly developing industry as they grow up and mature side-by-side through the intervening years.
A REPORTER'S LIFE is a very fine book. It is highly recommended for anyone interested in the life of one of our most distinguished news reporters and human beings, or a brief, but personal look into the history of media journalism.
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I'm a little more than half way through this book. I'm 18 years old, so I never got to see Mr. Cronkite in action. I have seen him on a clip of the movie Apollo 13 and on the Oprah Winfrey show. I have always been interested in the history of the 20th century. Mr. Cronkite was there to view most of the events that shaped the U.S. This is the main reason that I picked up the book.
When I starte reading, I noticed that the author writes more as a journalist than he does as an author. The book is am extremely long newspaper. I recomend this book for anyone over thirty.
The reason I gave this book a 3 star is because it lacks suspense and drama. Its not a novel, its a long newspaper.
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Wonderful and interesting, cozy chat style. Couldn't put the book down. Reminded me of fabulous days watching the news when the news was less of an entertainment arena. Wish Mr. Cronkite would write MORE!
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You'd think the guy could write
This is a surprisingly bad book, written essentially as a string of anecdotes on interesting things that happened to Walter Cronkite in his years as a newsman. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 18. Dezember 1999 veröffentlicht
Nice Pick Up
This book, of which I am nearing completion, is a very good book of one of the most influential men in American Society. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 6. November 1999 veröffentlicht
Starts slow but picks up
His personal story blends well with historical events. Sort of a very readable history book as well as a memoir.
Am 22. Oktober 1999 veröffentlicht
Absorbing behind-the-scenes view of 20th century history
Sometimes, Walter Cronkite rambles and the lack of an index is irritating. Those two quibbles aside, this is gripping stuff. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 13. August 1999 veröffentlicht
Very disappointing
Mr. Cronkite has written a very dull account of some decidly exciting times and events. He is a poor writer with some painfully dated views and opinions, particularly about race... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 12. Juni 1999 veröffentlicht
I was disappointed Cronkite wasn't more interesting.
I would have thought that with all the interesting events that Mr. Cronkite observed first-hand, he would have had more interesting stories to tell. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 14. Februar 1999 veröffentlicht
Disconnected
This book doesn't know what it wants to be when it grows up. The first half rambles on personal life, the second half preaches on public affairs, and the whole thing peters out in... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 17. Dezember 1998 veröffentlicht
I like Cronkite's book, but I need to answer-back...
Cronkite complains that not one of the many people who were saying that he should run for President ever asked him what his views are on the issues. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 25. August 1998 veröffentlicht
Good until about halfway through...
I received the audio book as a gift and the first half of it was terrific; very interesting, engaging, insightful, and worthwhile. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 27. Juli 1998 von Dave Taylor
And That's the Way it Was???
I looked forward to reading this book as Cronkite is certainly one of the better known figures in a Boomer's life on the tube. The first half of the book doesn't disappoint. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 19. März 1998 veröffentlicht
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