Chasing history : a kid in the newsroom

Author

Carl Bernstein

Call Number

• 921 B5313 (CEN, OSH)

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Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

New York, New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2022.

Physical Description

x, 370 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

Summary

"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, 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.

Notes

Includes index.

Contents

• 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.