Cronkite

Name/Title

Cronkite

Entry/Object ID

2021.2.250

Description

'Cronkite' by Douglas Brinkley. Copyright © 2012, HarperCollins Publishers, New York, N.Y. A large bound book in two-toned brown. The Book Jacket has a picture of the subject on the front. Inside, the author has signed his name onto a Missouri Western State University letterhead of R. Dan Boulware Convocation on Critical Issues paper.

Context

Prologue. PART I The Making of a Reporter: Chapter One - Missouri Boy; Chapter Two - Houston Youth; Chapter Three - Learning a Trade; Chapter Four - Making of a Unipresser. PART II The Second World War: Chapter Five - Gearing Up for Europe; Chapter Six - The Writing Sixty-Ninth; Chapter Seven - Dean of the Air War; Chapter Eight - Gliding to V-E Day; Chapter Nine - From the Nuremburg Trials to Russia. PART III Cold War Broadcasting: Chapter Ten - Infancy of TV News; Chapter Eleven - Election Night and UNIVAC; Chapter Twelve - Mr. CBS Utility Man; Chapter Thirteen - The Huntley and Brinkley Challenge; Chapter Fourteen - Torch is Passed; Chapter Fifteen - New Space Frontier on CBS. PART IV Anchorman: Chapter Sixteen - Anchorman of Camelot; Chapter Seventeen - The Kennedy Assassination; Chapter Eighteen - Who's Afraid of the Nielson Ratings?; Chapter Nineteen - Paley's Attempted Smackdown ; Chapter Twenty - Civil Rights and Project Gemini ; Chapter Twenty-One - What to do About Viet Nam?; Chapter Twenty-Two - The Tet Offensive. PART V Top Game: Chapter Twenty-Three - Calm and Chaos of 1968; Chapter Twenty-Four - Mr. Moon Shot; Chapter Twenty-Five - Avatar of Earth Day; Chapter Twenty-Six - The Nixon-versus-CBS War ; Chapter Twenty-Seven - Reportable Truth in the Age of Nixon; Chapter Twenty-Eight - Fan Clubs, Stalkers, and Political Good-byes; Chapter Twenty-Nine - A Time to Heal ; Chapter Thirty - Live with Jimmy Carter; PART V The Spokesperson: Chapter Thirty-One - Retirement Blues; Chapter Thirty-Two - Struggling Elder Statesman; Chapter Thirty-Three - Defiant Liberal; Chapter Thirty-Four - "The World's Oldest Reporter" ; Chapter Thirty-Five - The New Millennium. Epilogue. The back of the book contains: Acknowledgments, Bibliographical Glossary, Notes, Author's Interviews, and Index

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Book

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Other Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Transcription

Language

English

Dimensions

Dimension Notes

6 x 9.25 x 2.25

Book Details

Author

Douglas Brinkley

Date Published

2012