A journey for our times : a memoir
by Harrison E. Salisbury
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This autobiography is the story of the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist's life from his birth into a Victorian Minneapolis family through his distinguished career as a reporter, a legendary foreign correspondent and later, an editor of The New York Times.Tags
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1946 A Journey for Our Times: A Memoir by Harrison E. Salisbury (read 5 Oct 1985) This book covers the author's life up to 1954 and his relationship with Russia. He was born in Minnesota about 1908 and much of this book is quite gripping. His most unnecessary and stupid use of four-letter vulgarities grated on my nerves and disgusted me, but his account of his time in Russia, and particularly his account of the time of Stalin's death I found fascinating. I think he is a bit over-dramatic at times. Also, he spends a lot of time talking about his sexual misbehavior, which could so easily have been omitted. Apparently some idiot thought it would make the book more interesting--I thought it disgusting. But aside from this much of the book show more was fresh and interesting. show less
It's pretty good although it is fairly long. I wasn't entirely impressed with this just because it took me forever to get through.
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Foreign correspondent par excellence, Harrison Salisbury reported on World War II, Russia under Joseph Stalin and Khrushchev, Vietnam during the war, China, and numerous other hot spots around the world. He also covered the U.S. civil rights movement in the 1960s and inaugurated the op-ed page of The New York Times, a paper he was associated with show more for much of his career. Born into an intellectual family in Minneapolis, Salisbury got an early start in his career. After graduating from high school two years early, he worked intermittently as a reporter for the Minneapolis Journal while attending the University of Minnesota. When he was expelled from the university because of his crusading journalism, he joined United Press, and by 1934 was working in its Washington, D.C., bureau. During World War II, he reported from England, North Africa, and the Middle East, as well as Russia. In 1949, Salisbury went to work for The New York Times as the paper's Moscow correspondent. For the next six years, he got to know Russia and in 1955 wrote a series of articles on it that won him the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting. Salisbury joined the Times board in 1962 and became assistant managing editor in 1964. Still he continued to make his journalistic forays abroad. From December 12, 1966, to January 7, 1967, he reported from Hanoi, North Vietnam, the first American journalist to gain entrance to that country during the Vietnam War. His dispatches earned him several awards, including the Overseas Press Club's Asian Award, although the idea of an American reporting from enemy territory upset many people in Washington and elsewhere. The dispatches were soon turned into a book, Behind the Lines---Hanoi (1967). Salisbury retired from the Times in 1973. He produced 23 books, several of them dealing with social and political life in Russia under communism. He also wrote two novels and two autobiographical books. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Harrison Salisbury; Arthur Hays Sulzberger
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- New York Times
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- Biography & Memoir, Nonfiction, Anthropology, Business
- DDC/MDS
- 070.92 — Computer science, information & general works News media, journalism & publishing Documentary media, educational media, news media; journalism; publishing Biography And History Biographies
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- PN4874 .S266 .A34 — Language and Literature Literature (General) Literature (General) Journalism. The periodical press, etc. By region or country
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