David Brinkley: A Memoir - Softcover

Brinkley, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0345374029 ISBN 13: 9780345374028

Verlag: Ballantine Books, 1996

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Book by Brinkley David

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In this wonderful, best-selling life story readers and fans develop an intimate relationship with the simple Southern boy who became one of America's most respected and experienced newsmen. Reprint.

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"It seems to me now that Huntley's and my success lay mainly in the fact that we were new, as television was new, and we had few competitors. . . . Nearly everything we did had never been done before. . . . What is now commonplace was in its beginning a grand and glorious adventure for the people of our country and the world, a vicarious balloon ride into the stars. . . ."
Just how a young man growing up in a small southern town with only one one-hundred-watt A.M. radio station and no network affiliation became one of the world's most respected broadcasters in the nation makes for a "grand and glorious adventure" in itself. Now, in this fascinating and charmingly candid memoir of a career spanning half a century, David Brinkley recollects from his own unique vantage point the remarkable, shaky beginnings of television news, the ever-changing social and political landscape of our country, and the colorful people who have crossed his path. He includes pr

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• Verlag: Ballantine Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0345374029
• ISBN 13: 9780345374028
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 273