Tragedy of a trailblazer

"Loren Ghiglione recounts the fascinating life and tragic suicide of Don Hollenbeck, the controversial newscaster who became a primary target of McCarthyism's smear tactics. Drawing on unsealed FBI records, private family correspondence, and interviews with Walter Cronkite, Mike Wallace, Charles Collingwood, Douglas Edwards, and more than one hundred other journalists, Ghiglione cuts to the bone of this complicated newsman and chronicles the stark consequences of the anti-Communist frenzy that seized America in the late 1940s and 1950s." "In his investigation of this amazing American character, Ghiglione reveals the workings of an industry that continues to suffer from censorship and political manipulation. Separating myth from fact, CBS's Don Hollenbeck is the definitive portrait of a polarizing figure who became a symbol of America's tortured conscience."--BOOK JACKET.

Year

2008

Language

English

Publisher

Columbia University Press

Editions

1

Pages

330

ISBN

9780231144964

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