Table of Contents
Prologue 1
Part I The Making of a Reporter
1 Missouri Boy 15
2 Houston Youth 33
3 Learning a Trade 55
4 Making of a Unipresser 87
Part II The Second World War
5 Gearing Up for Europe 111
6 The Writing Sixty-Ninth 140
7 Dean of the Air War 171
8 Gliding to V-E Day 192
9 From the Nuremberg Trials to Russia 219
Part III Cold War Broadcaster
10 Infancy of TV News 237
11 Election Night and UNIVAC 262
12 Mr. CBS Utility Man 285
13 The Huntley and Brinkley Challenge 302
14 Torch Is Passed 331
15 New Space Frontier on CBS 367
Part IV Anchorman
16 Anchorman of Camelot 399
17 The Kennedy Assassination 438
18 Who's Afraid of the Nielsen Ratings? 475
19 Paley's Attempted Smackdown 506
20 Civil Rights and Project Gemini 540
21 What to Do About Vietnam? 568
22 The Tet Offensive 614
Part V Top Game
23 Calm and Chaos of 1968 651
24 Mr. Moon Shot 684
25 Avatar of Earth Day 713
26 The Nixon-versus-CBS War 740
27 Reportable Truth in the Age of Nixon 769
28 Fan Clubs, Stalkers, and Political Good-byes 812
29 A Time to Heal 851
30 Live with Jimmy Carter 880
Part VI The Spokesperson
31 Retirement Blues 921
32 Struggling Elder Statesman 959
33 Defiant Liberal 993
34 "The World's Oldest Reporter" 1033
35 The New Millennium 1069
Epilogue: Electronic Uncle Sam 1107
Acknowledgments 1127
Biographical Glossary 1150
Notes 1171
Author's Interviews 1404