Chasing history : a kid in the newsroom / Carl Bernstein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bernstein, Carl, 1944- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bernstein, Carl, 1944-.

Bernstein, Carl.

Journalists--United States--Biography.

Journalists.

United States.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

x, 370 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2022.

Summary:

"In this triumphant memoir, Carl Bernstein, the Pulitzer Prize-winning coauthor of ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN and pioneer of investigative journalism, recalls his beginnings as an audacious teenage newspaper reporter in the nation's capital-a winning tale of scrapes, gumshoeing, and American bedlam"-- Provided by publisher.

Bernstein's decades of reporting and incisive commentary have explored the use and abuse of power at the highest levels and fundamentally reshaped the reporting of news. But in 1960, inquisitive, self-taught, and truant, Bernstein landed a job as a copyboy at the Evening Star. Here he establishes the origins of his journalistic career as he chronicles the Kennedy era, hones his street smarts, and creates his expansive belief in what real reporting should be. -- adapted from jacket

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. The Door

2. Adrenaline

3. Initiation

4. Knowledge

5. Dry Run

6. Legman

7. Warthog

8. Night Beat

9. Hot Type

10. Inaugural

11. Misfit

12. Lift-off

13. Dictation

14. Local News

15. Crises

16. Off Campus

17. Ambition

18. America

19. Monumental

20. Growing Up

21. Civil Rights

22. Summer

23. Fort Holabird

24. General Assignment

25. The Wheel

26. Flack

27. Leavings.

Notes:

Includes index.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Beardwood Fund bookplate.

Other Format:

Online version: Bernstein, Carl, 1944- Chasing history

ISBN:

9781627791502

1627791507

OCLC:

1282172535