Cronkite
by Douglas Brinkley
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Critic Reviews: 26
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New York Times Bestselling Author The definitive, revealing biography of an American legend: renowned news anchor Walter Cronkite For decades, Walter Cronkite was known as "the most trusted man in America." Millions across the nation welcomed him into their homes each evening, first as a reporter from the frontlines of World War II, then later, in the emerging medium of television, where he hosted numerous documentary programs and anchored the CBS Evening... more
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- All Critics: 26
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The New York Times | 6 Jul 2012
“Cronkite” is evidence that a job can be done just about perfectly. That goes for the man and this exceptional biography.
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The Hollywood Reporter | 8 Jun 2012
Most marvelously, he reveals the anchor's unexpected friendships with people like Andy Warhol, Hunter S. Thompson and Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart.
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Los Angeles Times | 24 Jun 2012
The biography of longtime CBS anchor Walter Cronkite covers all the bases but includes jarring editorial outbursts.
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USA Today | 25 May 2012
Brinkley's book traces Cronkite's roots as a radio sports announcer in Kansas City and World War II wire service reporter who went on bombing missions over Germany.
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Boston.com | 1 Jul 2012
“Cronkite’’ brims with funny and telling anecdotes about this larger-than-life figure who helped shape the Information Age.
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Book Reporter | 15 Jun 2012
Anyone who grew up watching “Uncle Walter” on TV will appreciate Brinkley’s thorough biography of a broadcasting legend.
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Dallas News | 8 Jun 2012
In Cronkite, Rice University historian Douglas Brinkley (no relation to former NBC newsman David Brinkley) presents a thorough, although clumsily written, portrait of Cronkite and his times.
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The Pitch News | 4 Jun 2012
Brinkley assembled Cronkite by interviewing all three of Cronkite's children and by digging through the newsman's papers at the University of Texas...
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The National Interest | 12 Jul 2012
Douglas Brinkley’s new biography of Walter Cronkite has sparked an intriguing controversy about the CBS anchorman’s famous trip to Vietnam in February 1968.
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Kirkus Reviews | 15 Jul 2012
Still, the best portrait of Cronkite—that legendary journalist, certainly worthy of a big biography—that we have.
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By the Book Reviews | 15 Aug 2012
One could go on with many, many stories in this engrossing biography. It really should be read by every journalist in every medium, then memorized and used as the template for a career.
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The Daily Beast | 21 May 2012
The book, written with the cooperation of Cronkite and his family, recounts the remarkable career for which he is justly revered.
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Kansas City Kansas Public Library | 26 Jun 2012
This book is NOT recommended for anyone who doesn’t have the patience to wade through poorly proofed material.
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My San Antonio | 4 Jun 2012
In short, Brinkley's absorbing biography is a story to treasure.
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Biographile | 11 Jun 2012
If you aren't careful, reading Brinkley's "Cronkite" might stir within you a wrenching nostalgia.
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Cozy Librarian | 27 Jun 2012
Cronkite is over 800 pages, heavy enough to serve as a doorstop, but well worth the time it takes to read and absorb it.
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The Washington Post | 7 Sep 2012
For anyone interested in the evolution and power of broadcast news, this book is a tremendous read, minutely documenting TV journalism’s most remarkable phenomenon, Walter Cronkite.
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Richmond Times-Dispatch | 8 Jul 2012
Brinkley's "Cronkite" is meticulously reported and sourced and is alternately admiring and critical.
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Las Vegas Weekly | 27 Jun 2012
...Brinkley chronicles a tension in Cronkite’s character that colors the journalism his generation gave us, between the noble practice of “objective” journalism and the hollow performance of simulated “events.”
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New York Sun | 18 Jul 2012
Douglas Brinkley’s biography of Walter Cronkite tells you all any sane person would want to know about the subject, and tells it fluently and with rigorous attachment to sources.
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The Boston Globe | 1 Jul 2012
“Cronkite’’ brims with funny and telling anecdotes about this larger-than-life figure who helped shape the Information Age.
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The Backstage Beat | 1 Jun 2012
A good read for fans or those who want to learn more about this gentleman from Middle America.
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Bookmarks Magazine | 25 Jun 2012
Epic, intimate, and masterfully written, Cronkite is the much-anticipated biography of an extraordinary American life, told by one of our most brilliant and respected historians.
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A Jazz Listener's Thoughts | 11 Jun 2012
For those of us born in the 50s and raised in the tumultuous 60s, the book reads like an itinerary of our own lives and memories just as it was narrated by our own "Uncle Walter."
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http://tv.nytimes.com | 6 Jul 2012
“Cronkite” is evidence that a job can be done just about perfectly. That goes for the man and this exceptional biography.
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