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Assignment Russia
Becoming a Foreign Correspondent in the Crucible of the Cold War
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2021
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A personal journey through some of the darkest moments of the cold war and the early days of television news
Marvin Kalb, the award-winning journalist who has written extensively about the world he reported on during his long career, now turns his eye on the young man who became that journalist. Chosen by legendary broadcaster Edward R. Murrow to become one of what came to be known as the Murrow Boys, Kalb in this newest volume of his memoirs takes readers back to his first days as a journalist, and what also were the first days of broadcast news.
Kalb captures the excitement of being present at the creation of a whole new way of bringing news immediately to the public. And what news. Cold War tensions were high between Eisenhower's America and Khrushchev's Soviet Union. Kalb is at the center, occupying a unique spot as a student of Russia tasked with explaining Moscow to Washington and the American public. He joins a cast of legendary figures along the way, from Murrow himself to Eric Severeid, Howard K. Smith, Richard Hottelet, Charles Kuralt, and Daniel Schorr among many others. He finds himself assigned as Moscow correspondent of CBS News just as the U2 incidentthe downing of a US spy plane over Russian territoryis unfolding.
As readers of his first volume, The Year I Was Peter the Great, will recall, being the right person, in the right place, at the right time found Kalb face to face with Khrushchev. Assignment Russia sees Kalb once again an eyewitness to historyand a writer and analyst who has helped shape the first draft of that history.
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2021
ISBN-Print
978-0-8157-3896-1
ISBN-Online
978-0-8157-3897-8
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
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backcover1
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Table of Contents No access
Preface No access
Acknowledgments No access
Joining a "Band of Brothers" No access Pages 1 - 13
CBS's "Specialist on Soviet Affairs" No access Pages 14 - 37
Broadcasting's One Thing, Writing's Another No access Pages 38 - 63
A Book, a Documentary, and a New Idea No access Pages 64 - 88
"The Russians are Coming" No access Pages 89 - 108
The Sino-Soviet Alliance: Mysteries, Puzzles, and Enigmas No access Pages 109 - 128
Around the World in 100 Days—Part One No access Pages 129 - 155
Around the World—Part Two No access Pages 156 - 187
A Dream Come True No access Pages 188 - 200
The Paris Summit: Ike vs. Nikita No access Pages 201 - 220
...And, Finally, Moscow No access Pages 221 - 242
Censors, Circuits, and Double Beds No access Pages 243 - 267
Bargaining with Bureaucrats No access Pages 268 - 278
The "Pigeon" Lost in my Pasternak Adventure No access Pages 279 - 294
