Cbss Don Hollenbeck - An Honest Reporter in the Age of Mccarthyism

Klappentext 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 close 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. Zusammenfassung 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 close 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.

Product details

• Authors: Loren Ghiglione, Loren (Northwestern University) Ghiglione, Ghiglione Loren
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.04.2011
• EAN: 9780231144971
• ISBN: 978-0-231-14497-1
• No. of pages: 352
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Journalism; Media Studies, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Journalism, PERFORMING ARTS / Television / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, United States of America, USA, Radio / Podcasts, Biography: arts and entertainment, Dance & Other Performing Arts, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General, biography; entertainment