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A Reporter's Life

"IMMEDIATELY ENGROSSING . . . [A] SPLENDID MEMOIR."

—The Wall Street Journal

"Run, don't walk to the nearest bookstore and treat yourself to the most heartwarming, nostalgia-producing book you will have read in many a year."

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—Ann Landers

"Entertaining . . . The story of a modest man who succeeded extravagantly by remaining mostly himself. . . . His memoir is a short course on the flow of events in the second half of this century—events the world knows more about because of Walter Cronkite's work."

—The New York Times Book Review

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Audience
adult
Length
medium · 384 pages

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