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Author: Ken Cuthbertson ,
Ken Cuthbertson
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Imprint: McGill-Queen's University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 4.10cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.953kg
ISBN: 9780773545441
ISBN 10: 0773545441
Pages: 580
Publication Date: 01 May 2015
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Out of stock
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Reviews
A Complex Fate delves into the reasons for Shirer's excellence as a journalist, and like a Greek tragedy, explores why those very same traits - his intelligence, ego, autodidactic streak, uncompromising search for the truth, and iron will - threatened to be his undoing. Michael Sweeney, E.W. Scripps School of Journalism, Ohio University
A Complex Fate delves into the reasons for Shirer s excellence as a journalist, and like a Greek tragedy, explores why those very same traits - his intelligence, ego, autodidactic streak, uncompromising search for the truth, and iron will - threatened to be his undoing. Michael Sweeney, E.W. Scripps School of Journalism, Ohio University
This book has an almost Shakespearian quality: larger-than-life characters, broken friendships, pride and regret, all set against a background of war and depredation. It is also an in memoriam to an era of brilliant reporting, which to this day remains elegant, accurate, and admirable. May it ever be so. Morley Safer from the foreward This engaging account of Shirer's life and groundbreaking accomplishments during tumultuous times raises such fundamental journalistic issues as objectivity, corporate sponsorship, censorship, political correctness, wartime embedded reporting, and contem A Complex Fate delves into the reasons for Shirer's excellence as a journalist, and like a Greek tragedy, explores why those very same traits - his intelligence, ego, autodidactic streak, uncompromising search for the truth, and iron will - threatened to
A Complex Fate delves into the reasons for Shirer's excellence as a journalist, and like a Greek tragedy, explores why those very same traits - his intelligence, ego, autodidactic streak, uncompromising search for the truth, and iron will - threatened to This engaging account of Shirer's life and groundbreaking accomplishments during tumultuous times raises such fundamental journalistic issues as objectivity, corporate sponsorship, censorship, political correctness, wartime embedded reporting, and contem This book has an almost Shakespearian quality: larger-than-life characters, broken friendships, pride and regret, all set against a background of war and depredation. It is also an in memoriam to an era of brilliant reporting, which to this day remains elegant, accurate, and admirable. May it ever be so. Morley Safer from the foreward
Author Information
Ken Cuthbertson is the author of three previous books. His biography of the American journalist John Gunther, Inside, was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award. He lives in Kingston, Ontario.
