This is the witty, candid story of a daring young man who made his own way to the heights of America journalism and public life, of the great adventure that took him at only twenty years old straight from Harvard to almost four years in the shooting was in the South Pacific, and back, from a maverick New Hampshire weekly to an apprenticeship for Newsweek to postwar Paris, then to the Washington Bureau chief's desk, and finally to the apex of his career at The Washington Post. The recipient, William Safire was an important American author, columnist, journalist, and presidential speechwriter. In this witty, candid memoir, Ben Bradlee, the most important, glamorous, and famous newspaperman of modern times, traces his path from Harvard to the. I had never been west of the Berkshires or south of Washington, D.C., and I was on my way to some place called the South Pacific, which was not yet a musical.
And at 4:00 P.M., I married Jean Saltonstall, the first and only girl I had been with. At noon, I was commissioned an ensign in the U.S> Naval Reserve with orders to join a new destroyer being built in Kearny, New Jersey. Ben Bradlee es el hombre que puso a The Washington Post, un peridico de tercera categora cuando Bradlee asumi la direccin en 1965, a la altura de The. "On August 8, 1942, I graduated from Harvard by the skin of my teeth at 10:00 A.M. A Good Life The classic New York Times bestselling memoir by legendary Executive Editor of The Washington Post Ben Bradlee-with a new foreword by Bob.
A Good Life: Newspapering and Other Adventures by Ben Bradlee is a 514-page hardcover published by Simon & Schuster.
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