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In his early years as a journalist Knowlton Nash worked with the Globe and Mail, United Press, and, as a freelancer, the Financial Post, Maclean’s, the Vancouver Sun, and the Windsor Star, among other Canadian news outlets. He covered stories around the world, including the Cuban missile crisis, the student riots in Paris in 1968, and the Vietnam War, and interviewed various Canadian prime ministers and American presidents. In 1969 Nash was made director of information programming at the CBC, and in the mid-1970s, he became its director of television news and current affairs, a position he held until becoming anchor and senior correspondent for “The National” in 1978. In 1988, he stepped down as anchor, although he remained as senior correspondent until 1992, when he retired from daily television news broadcasting. Today, he is host of the CBC documentary series “Witness” and the archival program “Sense of History,” as well as anchor of “News in Review,” an educational series produced for schools and libraries.
Nash is also well known as the author of seven previous acclaimed books, including Cue the Elephant, Prime Time at Ten, Kennedy and Diefenbaker, The Microphone Wars, Trivia Pursuit, and The Swashbucklers. In 1989, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada, in 1995 he was given the John Drainie Award for his significant contribution to broadcasting, in 1996 he was named to the Canadian News Hall of Fame, and was made a Member of the Order of Ontario in 1998. Knowlton Nash lives in Toronto with his wife, Lorraine Thomson.
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History on the Run: The Trenchcoat Memoirs of a Foreign Correspondent
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Trade Paperback. Condition: Fine. First Thus 1st Printing. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. SUB-TITLE: The Trenchcoat Memoirs of a Foreign Correspondent. BOOK NUMBER: 6701-1. COVER PHOTOGRAPH: Peter Croydon. CONTENTS: Preface; Prologue 1 Writing for the Kansas City Milkman 2 Correspondent in Waiting 3 The Washington Beat 4 The Freelance Life 5 The New Frontier 6 One Minute to Midnight 7 Hello Lyndon 8 Vietnam 9 That Slum of a Year 10 Back Home Again; Index. SYNOPSIS: For close to thirty years Knowlton Nash has been "the news" for Canadians--that knowledgeable, believable, and articulate correspondent, and more recently, anchorman, who keeps us informed and up-to-date with happenings at home and abroad. Here at last is Nash's candid and highly personal reminiscence of the remarkable globe-trotting career that has spanned continents, seen him at the centre of the major news stories of our lifetimes, and taken him to the top of his chosen profession. From 1951 to 1969, Nash was based in "the greatest world centre of news since Rome"--Washington, D.C. During that time he covered the rise and fall of McCarthyism, presidencies from Eisenhower to Nixon, and the careers of John and Robert Kennedy. Nash has also covered history-making events from the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya to the Cuban Missile Crisis; walked on patrol in Vietnam with a frightened farmboy from Kansas; and, closer to home, shared private moments with Prime Ministers Diefenbaker, Pearson, Clark, and Trudeau. History on the Run is at once a memoir, an insider's look at the birth and phenomenal growth of television journalism, and a top-ranking newsman's history of the times in which we live. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Seller Inventory # 003595