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Audie Prize Nominee, Biography and Memoir, 2013 For decades, Walter Cronkite was known as "the most trustworthy man in America". Yet this very general population figure was an amazingly private man. Sketching on unprecedented usage of Cronkite's private papers as well as interviews with his relatives and buddies, Douglas Brinkley now brings this American icon into emphasis as nothing you've seen prior. Brinkley traces Cronkite's tale from his root base in Missouri and Tx through the fantastic Depression, where he started his profession, to World Battle II, when he gained notice reporting with Allied soldiers from North Africa, D-Day, and the Challenge of the Bulge. In 1950, Edward R. Murrow recruited him to improve CBS, where he protected presidential elections, the area program, Vietnam, and the first televised broadcasts of the Olympic Games. Cronkite was also see to many of the very most profound moments in modern American record, including the Kennedy assassination, Apollos 11 and 13, Watergate, the Vietnam Battle, and the Iran hostage problems. Epic, intimate, and masterfully written, Cronkite is the much-anticipated biography of a fantastic American life, advised by one of your most fantastic and respected historians.
