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Very Good. Very Good condition. Very Good dust jacket. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.
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Very good in Very good jacket. xv, [1], 413, [3] p. Illustrations. Where Are They Now? Bibliography. Notes. Index. Inscription signed by the author is on t-p. Inscription reads With warm wishes to Susan & Neil Roger Mudd. Minor page wear. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Roger Harrison Mudd (February 9, 1928-March 9, 2021) was an American broadcast journalist who was a correspondent and anchor for CBS News and NBC News. He also worked as the primary anchor for The History Channel. Previously, Mudd was weekend and weekday substitute anchor for the CBS Evening News, the co-anchor of the weekday NBC Nightly News, and the host of the NBC-TV Meet the Press and American Almanac TV programs. Mudd was the recipient of the Peabody Award, the Joan Shorenstein Award for Distinguished Washington Reporting, and five Emmy Awards. In 1980, after being turned down in favor of Dan Rather to succeed Cronkite as weeknight anchor of the CBS Evening News, Mudd chose to leave CBS News and accepted an offer to join NBC News. He co-anchored NBC Nightly News from April 1982 until September 1983, when Tom Brokaw took over as sole anchor. From 1984 to 1985, he was co-moderator of NBC's Meet the Press with Marvin Kalb, and later served as co-anchor with Connie Chung on two NBC news magazines, American Almanac and 1986. From 1987 to 1992, Mudd was an essayist and political correspondent with the MacNeil Lehrer Newshour on PBS. He retired from full-time broadcasting in 2004, Mudd's The Place to Be: Washington, CBS, and the Glory Days of Television News, was released on March 24, 2008. Derived from a Kirkus review: Veteran TV newsman Mudd engrossingly dissects the coming of age of television news, as experienced at the best and brightest shop. His memoir of the "golden age" of CBS News's Washington bureau-perhaps not coincidentally coinciding with Mudd's 1960s-'70s tenure there-takes a lively and gratifyingly candid look back at a pre-CNN, pre-Internet, pre-cell phone media struggling to decode the strange signs and customs of the U.S. government. Revered as the House that Murrow Built, CBS News attracted an astonishing number of driven, talented journalists with a nearly religious zeal for beating the competition and creating the best possible broadcast. Mudd covered the congressional beat, earning a reputation as a hard-nosed, somewhat irreverent, prickly perfectionist. He was deemed Walter Cronkite's heir apparent at the anchor desk, and more than 25 years after losing that seat to sometime friend and professional nemesis Dan Rather, his bitterness is still palpable. Mudd paints an illuminating portrait of Rather as talented, ruthlessly ambitious, calculating and fatally eager for the big scoop at the expense of journalistic probity and his own credibility. Equally sharp are sketches revealing Cronkite's high standards; Eric Sevareid's brilliance and difficult personality; Connie Chung's remarkable pluck; etc. Mudd's aim is to show the type of person-tightly wound, obsessive and possessed of a healthy ego-that made possible CBS News's many journalistic coups. His insightful reminiscences of covering the Kennedy assassination, Watergate and the civil-rights movement bring a fresh insider's perspective to these events. Also engaging are Mudd's takes on lesser-known stories, rich in period detail and crackling with the urgency of deadlines and the need to prove one's self anew every day. Brisk, brusque and surprisingly witty-a must for students of politics and entertainment.
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