Bronze Medalist, 2014 Independent Publisher Book Awards in the Autobiography / Memoir I (Celebrity / Political / Romance) category
Bronze Winner, 2013 Fore Word Indie Fab Book of the Year Award in the Autobiography & Memoir Category
In this powerful memoir, Harry Rosenfeld describes his years as an editor at the
New York Herald Tribune and the
Washington Post, two of the greatest American newspapers in the second half of the turbulent twentieth century. After playing key roles at the
Herald Tribune as it battled fiercely for its survival, he joined the
Post under the leadership of Ben Bradlee and Katharine Graham as they were building the paper’s national reputation. As the
Post’s Metropolitan editor, Rosenfeld managed Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein as they broke the Watergate story, overseeing the paper’s standard-setting coverage that eventually earned it the Pulitzer Prize Gold Medal for Public Service. In describing his complicated relationship with Bradlee and offering an insider’s perspective on the unlikely partnership of Woodward and Bernstein, Rosenfeld depicts the tensions and challenges, triumphs and setbacks that accompanied the
Post’s key role in Watergate, the most potent political scandal in America’s history.
Rosenfeld also tells the gripping story of growing up in Hitler’s Berlin. He saw his father taken away by the Gestapo in the middle of the night, and on Kristallnacht, the prelude to the Holocaust, he witnessed the burning of his synagogue and walked through streets littered with the shattered glass of Jewish businesses. After his family found refuge in America, his childhood experiences stayed with him and ultimately influenced his decision to make journalism his life’s work.
At a time when newspapers and other media are under financial pressure to cut back on investigative reporting, From Kristallnacht to Watergate reminds us why journalism matters, and why good journalism is essential to our democracy.
Spis treści
Acknowledgments
Prologue
1. From Warsaw to Berlin
2. Kristallnacht
3. Coming to America
4. Annie
5. The Trib
6. In the Army
7. Fighting to Save the Trib
8. The Long Battle Rages On
9.
The Washington Post
10. Assignment Vietnam
11. World Tour
12. Back in Washington
13. Shaping Up Metro
14. Inside Watergate
15. The Reporters Who Became Woodstein
16. Watergate Act Two
17. Nixon Gets a Wakeup Call
18. After the Pulitzer
19. Diversions High and Low
20. Nixon’s Final Hours
21. New Assignment
22. A Strike and Other Troubles
23. Uncharted Waters
24. New Job, New Demands
25. Primed for a Fresh Start
Epilogue
Appendix
Index
O autorze
Harry Rosenfeld is Editor-at-Large and a consultant at the Albany
Times Union. He is also a member of the newspaper’s editorial board. He lives in Albany, New York.
Więcej książek elektronicznych tego samego autora (ów) / Redaktor
48 437 Ebooki w tej kategorii
