The Reporter Who Knew Too Much: Harrison Salisbury and the New York Times

Donald E. Davis , Eugene P. Trani
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The Reporter Who Knew Too Much: Harrison Salisbury and the New York Times

Donald E. Davis , Eugene P. Trani
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Davis and Trani have produced a lively, crisp, yet exhaustive account of a towering figure in the history of the New York Times. A man of the left, Harrison Salisbury spoke truth to power selectively, but everyone respected his talent and industry. He was a great figure in 20th century foreign reporting, whether in Moscow, Hanoi or Beijing, in his seventies no less than in his thirties. Salisbury’s sharp eye and eloquent pen produced terrific stories and influential books. His life, vividly reflected in The Reporter Who Knew Too Much, was an American saga blending Minnesota idealism, Washington’s leading role in the post-WWII world, and Salisbury’s hard-nosed realism learned from brushing shoulders with tyrants. As well as a memorable portrait of Salisbury, here is rich detail on struggles within the Times among brilliant editors who saw themselves as priests of an infallible church.
  • Published date: Oct 25, 2012
  • Language: English
  • No. of Pages: 292
  • Publisher: Rowman
  • ISBN: 9781442219496
  • Dimensions: 6.24" W x 1.04" L x 9.31" H
Donald E. Davis is Professor Emeritus of History at Illinois State University. Davis is the editor of No East or West: The Memoirs of Paul B. Anderson. Davis served as professor of Russian History at Illinois State University from 1964 - 2004, and has authored numerous articles, reviews, papers and opinion pieces. Eugene P. Trani is President Emeritus and University Distinguished Professor at Virginia Commonwealth University. Trani has authored, coauthored, annotated, and edited eight books and published more than one hundred articles and opinion pieces. An historian of American diplomatic history, Trani is the author of The Presidency of Warren G. Harding. Trani has also written on the role universities play as key drivers of economic development in their communities. Friends from graduate school at Indiana University, Bloomington, Davis and Trani have co-authored three books: The First Cold War: The Legacy of Woodrow Wilson in U.S.-Soviet Relations (University of Missouri Press), published first in English, then translated and published in Russian and Chinese; Distorted Mirrors: Americans and Their Relations with Russia and China in the Twentieth-Century (University of Missouri Press), also published in Russian and Spanish, and now this significant contribution to the understanding of a major figure in the history of journalism, Harrison E. Salisbury.

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