Driven: A Life in Public Service and Journalism from LBJ to CNN by Johnson, Tom

Driven: A Life in Public Service and Journalism from LBJ to CNN (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780820374536)

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Driven: A Life in Public Service and Journalism from LBJ to CNN by Johnson, Tom

Driven: A Life in Public Service and Journalism from LBJ to CNN

$34.95
Driven: A Life in Public Service and Journalism from LBJ to CNN by Johnson, Tom

Driven: A Life in Public Service and Journalism from LBJ to CNN

$34.95
Format: Hardcover
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Driven brings a seasoned perspective to today's conversations about government, media, and the future of truth in the form of a long-awaited autobiography by Tom Johnson, an award-winning journalist who helped shape the twenty-four-hour news media as we know it. Johnson's storied career in politics and journalism spans the Lyndon B. Johnson administration, where he was privy to painful negotiations on Vietnam and notified the president that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. had been assassinated, through the executive leadership of the LA Times and, finally, Ted Turner's upstart CNN in Atlanta.

From his perspective "inside the room," Johnson provides eyewitness accounts of Lyndon B. Johnson's triumphs and disasters and his on-the-ground view of the magnificent achievements and significant shortfalls of late twentieth-century American journalism. Johnson is also candid about his lifelong struggle with depression and mental health and recovery advocacy. With more than eight decades behind him, Driven is not just Johnson's look at the past but a chance for his story to offer guidance about finding balance in an uncertain future.

Author: Tom Johnson
ISBN-10: 0820374539
ISBN-13: 9780820374536
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Language: English
Published: 10/01/2025
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
By Tom Johnson
By Tom Johnson
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TOM JOHNSON served as chief executive officer of two of America's most respected news organizations, the Los Angeles Times and CNN. Part of the first White House Fellows class, he eventually became assistant press secretary under Bill Moyers, then assistant to President Lyndon B. Johnson, following LBJ back to Texas after he left office. He is a recipient of several awards, including the Horatio Alger Award, Ten Outstanding Young Americans, the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism, and the Paul White Award, to name a few. In 2006, he also received the John Gardner Legacy of Leadership Award by the White House Fellows for lifetime achievement in public service. A native of Macon, Georgia, and graduate of the University of Georgia and Harvard Business School, Johnson lives in Atlanta with his wife Edwina.

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