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The inconvenient journalist : a memoir / Dusko Doder with Louise Branson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Doder, Dusko, author.
- Branson, Louise, author.
- Series:
- Cornell scholarship online.
- Cornell scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Doder, Dusko.
- Foreign correspondents--United States--Biography.
- Foreign correspondents.
- Cold War--Personal narratives.
- Cold War.
- Foreign correspondents--Soviet Union.
- Genre:
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 online resource)
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2021.
- Summary:
- In 'The Inconvenient Journalist', Dusko Doder, writing with his spouse and journalistic partner Louise Branson, describes how one February night crystalized the values and personal risks that shaped his life. The frigid Moscow night in question was in 1984, and Washington Post correspondent Doder reported signs that Soviet leader Yuri Andropov had died.
- Contents:
- Prologue: the assassination
- The story that died
- Rookie reporter in Cold War Moscow
- Evading the KGB to make contacts
- Hired by the Washington Post
- Perils covering my native Yugoslavia
- Back at a paper changed by Watergate
- Post Moscow correspondent at last
- Covering Russia's KGB Tsar
- The price for breaking a rule of journalism
- Love changes everything
- Reluctant intelligence reporter
- Casey's revenge
- Seeking a new life in China
- A reckoning in Yugoslavia
- Assassination by Time magazine
- Epilogue: dogs bark
- Notes:
- Also issued in print: 2021.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781501759116
- 1501759116
- OCLC:
- 1226073707
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