Covering the Cold War and Other Shadows in the Land of the Midnight Sun

Heintzen, Harry

ISBN 10: 1452011729 / ISBN 13: 9781452011721

Published by Authorhouse, 2010

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Print on Demand pp. 188.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Covering the Cold War and Other Shadows in the Land of the Midnight Sun
• Publisher: Authorhouse
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1452011729
• ISBN 13: 9781452011721
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

A young reporter wants so badly to be a foreign correspondent that he leaves his job in the U.S. and heads for Scandinavia to try his luck. He encounters a weird, white world and quickly finds himself covering the Cold War between Finland and the Soviet Union, for which he is denounced in Pravda. He finds himself writing for a journalistic giant, The New York Herald-Tribune, but which pays a pittance for his stories. He covers events in Sweden, Finland, Norway and Denmark, meeting such people as a Nobel Peace Prize winner, a Norwegian war hero, a singer/movie actress, a Prime Minister and a host of other interesting characters. He also meets and marries the girl of his dreams. Then, just as his money is about to run out, he unexpectedly wins a prestigious and lucrative journalism award that brings him back to the U. S. and recognition as a full-ledged foreign correspondent. Told in letters and rememberances, it is a story of suceeding against the odds in the Land of the Midnight Sun.