Covering the Cold War and Other Shadows in the Land of the Midnight Sun (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781452011721)

A young reporter wants so badly to be a foreign correspondent that he leaves his job in the U.S. and heads for Scandinavia to try his luck. He encounters a weird, white world and quickly finds himself covering the Cold War between Finland and the Soviet Union, for which he is denounced in Pravda. He finds himself writing for a journalistic giant, The New York Herald-Tribune, but which pays a pittance for his stories. He covers events in Sweden, Finland, Norway and Denmark, meeting such people as a Nobel Peace Prize winner, a Norwegian war hero, a singer/movie actress, a Prime Minister and a host of other interesting characters. He also meets and marries the girl of his dreams. Then, just as his money is about to run out, he unexpectedly wins a prestigious and lucrative journalism award that brings him back to the U. S. and recognition as a full-ledged foreign correspondent. Told in letters and rememberances, it is a story of suceeding against the odds in the Land of the Midnight Sun.

Author: Harry Heintzen
ISBN-10: 1452011729
ISBN-13: 9781452011721
Publisher: Authorhouse
Language: English
Published: 09/08/2010
Pages: 188
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56d