Large Print Book
Chasing history : a kid in the newsroom / Carl Bernstein.
"In this triumphant memoir, Carl Bernstein, the Pulitzer Prize-winning coauthor of All the President's Men and pioneer of investigative journalism, recalls his beginnings as an audacious teenage newspaper reporter in the nation's capital--a winning tale of scrapes, gumshoeing, and American bedlam. In 1960, Bernstein was just a sixteen-year-old at considerable risk of failing to graduate high school. Inquisitive, self-taught--and, yes, truant--Bernstein landed a job as a copyboy at the Evening Star, the afternoon paper in Washington. By nineteen, he was a reporter there. In Chasing History: A Kid in the Newsroom, Bernstein recalls the origins of his storied journalistic career as he chronicles the Kennedy era, the swelling civil rights movement, and a slew of grisly crimes. He spins a buoyant, frenetic account of educating himself in what Bob Woodward describes as "the genius of perpetual engagement." Funny and exhilarating, poignant and frank, Chasing History is an extraordinary memoir of life on the cusp of adulthood for a determined young man with a dogged commitment to the truth"-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781432898656
- ISBN: 1432898655
- Physical Description: 665 pages (large print), 22 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Publisher: Waterville, ME : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2022.
- Copyright: ©2022
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Large print edition. Includes index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Prologue -- The door -- Adrenaline -- Initiation -- Knowledge -- Dry run -- Legman -- Warthog -- Night beat -- Hot type -- Inaugural -- Misfit -- Lift-off -- Dictation -- Local news -- Crises -- Off campus -- Ambition -- America -- Monumental -- Growing up -- Civil rights -- Summer -- Ford Holabird -- General assignment -- The wheel -- Flack -- Leavings -- Epilogue. |
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| Subject: | Bernstein, Carl, 1944- Journalists > United States > Biography. Large type books. |
| Genre: | Large type books. Autobiographies. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Altoona Area Public Library | LP 070.92 BER (Text) | 33240004211028 | Adult Large Print Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Brandywine Community Library | BER (Text) | 33249025013271 | Large Print Biography | Available | - |
| Emmaus Public Library | LT B BERNSTEIN (Text) | 36446002067943 | Large Print Biography | Available | - |
| Fleetwood Area Public Library | BER (Text) | 33249024367058 | Large Print Biography | Available | - |
| New Oxford Library | LP BIOG BERN-C (Text) | 35740635846421 | Large Print Nonfiction | Available | - |
| RPL - Senior Outreach | LP Bio Bernstein, C (Text) | 33223008961699 | Large Print Biography | Available | - |
| Wernersville Public Library | BER (Text) | 33249023995099 | Large Print Biography | Available | - |
| Bethlehem Main Library | B BERNSTEIN (Text) | 33062009604753 | Large Print Biography | Available | - |
