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| Genre/Form: | Biography |
|---|---|
| Named Person: | Roger Mudd; Roger Mudd |
| Material Type: | Biography, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Roger Mudd |
| ISBN: | 9781586485764 1586485768 9781586486938 1586486934 |
| OCLC Number: | 180852027 |
| Description: | xv, 413 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | The glory years -- Gimme rewrite -- Pipe Poeus -- Home to stay -- You'll be local the rest of your life -- Take two, take three -- Old four fingers -- Mister Small -- The desk -- The front row -- The back row -- The four rules of Sevareid -- Wolves on the prowl -- Wanted by the FBI -- Nothing could be finer -- "The hunkies have run amok" -- The useful pest -- The march on Washington -- The rumormonger -- Where were you when ...? -- "A sad, sorry mess" -- "What do we do now, Dick?" -- "Will you wave, sire?" -- The Minnesota Twins -- Mister Ev, the talking horse -- "Not while I'm around" -- "Of course, it's a great body" -- "Who the hell is Alexander Kendrick?" -- "How about Bobbsie?" -- "I don't know. I don't know" -- Too deep a hole -- "Ma'am, I've been hit, too" -- "Nixon's the one what?" -- Hitting our stride -- The hand that feeds you -- Yes, no, and just a little bit -- The stakeout queens -- "I think I got it--I hope I got it" -- "Stand by for a ram" -- "We could have done better" -- Nattering nabobs -- The legal eagles -- "Voices from hell" -- At noon tomorrow -- Pancake -- Pike's Peek -- Uncle Walter -- Teddy -- "A compelling mystique" -- "We're going with Rather" --The place to be. |
| Responsibility: | Roger Mudd. |
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Abstract:
A vivid behind-the-scenes portrait of the personalities, the drama, and the passion at CBS News during its peak years, by one of its best newscasters
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"The Washington Post Book Review"
.,."A classic of Washington journalism, a wry and probing memoir of a career that mattered when the news mattered"
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