Chasing history : a kid in the newsroom
(Pre-loaded Audio)

Title from Playaway label.

Release date supplied by publisher.

Issued on Playaway, a dedicated audio media player.

Originally published by Macmillan Audio ℗2021.

One set of earphones and one AAA battery required for listening.

Performed by Robert Petkoff.

"In 1960, Bernstein was just a sixteen-year-old at considerable risk of failing to graduate high school. Inquisitive, self-taught -- and yes, truant -- Bernstein lands a job as a copyboy at the Evening Star, the afternoon paper in Washington. By nineteen, he was a reporter. Bernstein vividly establishes the origins of his storied journalistic career as he chronicles the Kennedy era, the swelling of the civil rights movement, and a slew of grisly crimes. He spins a buoyant, frenetic account of educating himself in what Bob Woodward describes as 'the genius of perpetual engagement," honing his street smarts and expansive belief in what real reporting should be. Funny and exhilarating, poignant and frank, an extraordinary memoir of life on the cusp of adulthood for a determined young man with a dogged commitment to the truth"--,Provided by publisher.

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