With Heroic Truth: The Life of Edward R. Murrow

Finkelstein, Norman H.

ISBN 10: 0395678919 / ISBN 13: 9780395678916

Published by Clarion Books, 1997

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Dust jacket is bumped at the front top right corner and at the top of the spine. Book pages are clean with no marks.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: With Heroic Truth: The Life of Edward R. Murrow
• Publisher: Clarion Books
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0395678919
• ISBN 13: 9780395678916
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

Presents a unique biography of pioneering television journalist Edward R. Murrow, hired by the Columbia Broadcasting System in 1935, who developed a straightforward, on-the-scene reporting style to reshape the American coverage of European political events.

About the Author

Norman H. Finkelstein is a writer, editor and teacher. A former school librarian in the Brookline, Massachusetts Public Schools, he has been teaching children's literature and history courses at Hebrew College for over twenty-five years. He is the series editor for the JPS Guides series published by the Jewish Publication Society. He holds degrees from Boston University and Hebrew College and has written sixteen books for young readers. He is the recipient of the Golden Kite Honor Book Award for Nonfiction and two National Jewish Book Awards. Norman is married, has three grown children and two beautiful grandchildren. He lives in Framingham, Massachusetts.