Chasing History: A Kid in the Newsroom – by Bernstein, Carl – Hardcove

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\nAuthor:Bernstein, Carl\nBinding:Hardcover\nPub Date:January 11, 2022\n\n\nIn 1960, Bernstein was just a sixteen-year-old at considerable risk of failing to graduate high school. Inquisitive, self-taughtand, yes, truantBernstein landed a job as a copyboy at theEvening Star, the afternoon paper in Washington. By nineteen, he was a reporter there.InChasing 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 Historyis an extraordinary memoir of life on the cusp of adulthood for a determined young man with a dogged commitment to the truth.