THE LIFE OF Edward R. Murrow - World Radio History

THE LIFE OF

Edward R. Murrow

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timber country of the Northwest. His youthful activities in the international student movement during the thirties and in educational exchange -- including the rescue of scores of eminent scholars from Nazi Germany -- were the springboard for his entry into radio. There he became familiar to the highly placed and humble of two continents.

He was in Vienna in 1938 when Hitler arrived. He was under Nazi bombs in the London Blitz, when his measured "This is London" awakened millions of Americans to the reality of the German menace. He was with green American combat troops in North Africa, in Allied air raids over Berlin, an eyewitness to the depravities of Buchenwald, and again present on the battlefields of Korea.

But perhaps his most earnest combat was reserved for his fight for the conscience of broadcasting. Disappointed in his battle to uphold the integrity and civic commitment of broadcasting, he finally left the industry to direct the USIA, where his firmly held ideals were again to meet their test over Vietnam.

Prime Time derives in some measure from Alexander Kendrick's own lifetime career in journalism, first as a newspaper reporter and then as abroadcaster for CBS for the past twenty years. As one of the "Murrow Boys" there, he came to know well one of the most intelligent, dedicated, conscientious, and fascinating personalities in public life. His account of the life of Ed Murrow is at the same time abiting analysis of acritical era and the increasingly debatable use of the media of mass communications.

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Prime Time The Life of

EDWARD R. MURROW

by ALEXANDER KENDRICK

LITTLE, BROWN AND COMPANY ? BOSTON ? TORONTO

COPYRIGHT ? 1969 by Alexander Kendrick

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FIRST EDITION

The author and the publishers wish to thank Alfred A. Knopf Incorporated for permission to reprint excerpts from /n Search of Light: The Broadcasts of Edward R. Murrow 1938-196/, edited and with an Introduction by Edward Bliss, Jr. 0 Copyright 1967 by the Estate of Edward R. Murrow.

Published simultaneously in Canada by Little, Brown & Company (Canada) Limited

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PRIME TIME The We of

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