Chasing History: A Kid in the Newsroom

Chasing History: A Kid in the Newsroom

by Carl Bernstein
Chasing History: A Kid in the Newsroom

Chasing History: A Kid in the Newsroom

by Carl Bernstein

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Overview

A New York Times bestseller

In this triumphant memoir, Carl Bernstein, the Pulitzer Prize-winning coauthor of All the President’s Men and pioneer of investigative journalism, recalls his beginnings as an audacious teenage newspaper reporter in the nation’s capital—a winning tale of scrapes, gumshoeing, and American bedlam.


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 landed a job as a copyboy at the Evening Star, the afternoon paper in Washington. By nineteen, he was a reporter there.

In Chasing History: A Kid in the Newsroom, Bernstein recalls the origins of his storied journalistic career as he chronicles the Kennedy era, the swelling 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.”

Funny and exhilarating, poignant and frank, Chasing History is an extraordinary memoir of life on the cusp of adulthood for a determined young man with a dogged commitment to the truth.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781627791519
Publisher: Holt, Henry & Company, Inc.
Publication date: 01/11/2022
Sold by: Macmillan
Format: eBook
Pages: 352
Sales rank: 418,250
File size: 28 MB
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About the Author

About The Author
Carl Bernstein is the author or coauthor of a number of bestselling books, most notably All the President’s Men, written with Bob Woodward. He, Woodward, and the Washington Post were awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for breaking and investigating the Watergate story, which led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon and set the standard for modern investigative reporting. He is also the author of biographies of Pope John Paul II and Hillary Clinton and a memoir of his family’s experiences during the McCarthy era. He is currently an on-air political analyst for CNN and a contributing editor for Vanity Fair. He lives in New York City.

Table of Contents

Prologue 9

1 The Door 19

2 Adrenaline 28

3 Initiation 48

4 Knowledge 60

5 Dry Run 85

6 Legman 96

7 Warthog 124

8 Night Beat 140

9 Hot Type 158

10 Inaugural 172

11 Misfit 195

12 Lift-off 217

13 Dictation 249

14 Local News 266

15 Crises 284

16 Off Campus 311

17 Ambition 341

18 America 364

19 Monumental 394

20 Growing Up 422

21 Civil Rights 449

22 Summer 476

23 Fort Holabird 498

24 General Assignment 509

25 The Wheel 528

26 Flack 546

27 Leavings 553

Epilogue 569

Acknowledgments 597

Index 605

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