Reporters Who Made History: Great American Journalists on the Issues and Crises of the Late 20th Century (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780313380266)

This volume looks back at the last half of the 20th century through the work and reminiscences of ten of the era's preeminent journalists.

Reporters Who Made History: Great American Journalists on the Issues and Crises of the Late 20th Century looks at a series of extraordinary chapters in the American story through the eyes of ten giants of journalism: Helen Thomas, Anthony Lewis, Morley Safer, Earl Caldwell, Ben Bradlee, Georgie Anne Geyer, Ellen Goodman, Juan Williams, David Broder, and Judy Woodruff.

Taking each of these journalists in turn, Hallock focuses on his or her work in the course of a single decade, drawing on the author's interviews with the journalist, archival research, memoirs, and critical studies. These exemplars of the best postwar American news reporting never took the easy path of simply restating policies and uncritically regurgitating press releases. Instead, their skeptical, independent, and searching methods of investigative and analytical journalism actually influenced the course of the very events they covered and significantly shaped our understanding of our national past.

Author: Steven M. Hallock
ISBN-10: 0313380260
ISBN-13: 9780313380266
Publisher: Praeger
Language: English
Published: 11/01/2009
Pages: 360
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.55lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.30w x 1.40d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2010 pg. 269