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Chasing History
- A Kid in the Newsroom
- Narrado por: Carl Bernstein, Robert Petkoff
- Duración: 13 h y 57 m
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The digital version of this audiobook contains an introduction read by Carl Bernstein.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning coauthor of All the President’s Men - the chronicle of the investigative report about the Watergate break-in and resultant political scandal that led to President Richard Nixon’s resignation - recalls his formative years as a teenage newspaper reporter in JFK’s Washington - a tale of adventures, scrapes, clever escapes, and the opportunity of a lifetime.
“Carl Bernstein, Washington Star.”
With these words, the 16-year-old senior at Montgomery Blair High School set himself apart from the high school crowd and set himself on a track that would define his life. Carl Bernstein was far from the best student in his class - in fact, he was in danger of not graduating at all - but he had a talent for writing, a burning desire to know things that other people didn’t, and a flair for being in the right place at the right time. Those qualities got him inside the newsroom at the Washington Star, the afternoon paper in the nation’s capital, in the summer of 1960, a pivotal time for America, for Washington, DC, and for a young man in a hurry on the cusp of adulthood.
Chasing History opens up the world of the early 1960s as Bernstein experienced it, chasing after grisly crimes with the paper’s police reporter, gathering colorful details at a John F. Kennedy campaign rally, running afoul of union rules, and confronting racial tensions as the civil rights movement gained strength. We learn alongside him as he comes to understand the life of a newspaperman, and we share his pride as he hunts down information, gets his first byline, and discovers that he has a talent for the job after all.
By turns exhilarating, funny, tense, and poignant, Chasing History shows us a country coming into its own maturity along with young Carl Bernstein, and when he strikes out on his own after five years at the Star, his hard-won knowledge and experience feels like ours as well.
A Macmillan Audio production from Henry Holt and Company
"Narrator Robert Petkoff, with an occasional assist from the author, takes listeners back to the beginning. Sounding like an indulgent grandfather telling his life story to his grandchildren, Petkoff recounts how a scrappy high schooler managed to worm his way into the Washington Star newsroom at age 16.... This audiobook will provide hope to any would-be journalist." (AudioFile)
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Carl Bernstein's tale of his early years in the news business
This audiobook has more detail about the author's career than I cared to hear, and yet his enthusiasm for every aspect of how a newspaper works is infectious, and also fascinating. Also worth hearing are Bernstein's accounts of important people and events during the 1960s.
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Sentimental fun read for news room junkies and DC lovers
I enjoyed this book so much, largely because I grew up in Northern Virginia/DC, and I remember so many of the places and events in history Bernstein talks about. My mom subscribed to The Washington Star, and as a little girl I loved reading the front page and dreaming of becoming a reporter there some day. By the time I got to a newsroom the Star was gone, but I loved being in that environment, learning from wise old editors from The Post and The Star, feeling like I was doing something important. So reading Bernstein’s account of his early days, chasing history, and recalling a time when newspapers thrived was so much fun.
I loved how his writing makes you feel you were right there with him in DC, sharing details and events in of the different places like Silver Spring, NW DC, Georgetown, Anacostia, and the history he witnessed and reported on that was part of the local and national narrative.
It was also very fun to learn more about Bernstein’s beginning at age 16 when he started skipping school to be at the paper, flunked out of University, dictated copy for big shots in news, and reported on some of the most important stories of our time…well before Watergate. Fun listen. The only thing I missed was hearing Bernstein narrate it himself. Although he does make a cameo in the Epilogue.
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- 05-06-24
Clarity. Fluidity. Context… Everything!
I loved it! I did not grow up in the US. I am thirsty for history! I always admired the author and respected his journalism testimony.
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- Amazon Customer
- 02-27-22
At All The Big Stories
I'm an unabashed fan of Messrs. Bernstein and Woodward as reporters for All The President's Men since I read it in high school.
This book, as the reporter writing his own story, was obviously a new tack for the reporter (or at least for me). Very honest, very direct, and even almost "amateurish" and enthusiastic. Like a fresh reporter.
But the span of the stories he saw, close up, during the Sixties... are beyond compare. JFK on the stump, his inauguration, assassination, MLK... Interspersed with how he grew up, the newspaper folks he worked for and with along the way, how he brought his humanity and decency, or at least tried to, to his stories...
Thanks for sharing this Mr. Bernstein.
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- Callie
- 04-30-23
Good Story of a Newsman
Carl does a good job of recounting his years in the news business. Candidly, he recounts what he was like as a young person. He describes the early newsroom and what it was like, which I found interesting. He was able to explain the passion that the early newspaper people had and what it felt like to be in the newspaper room. It is amazing how different things were and how they had to chase a story. If you like history and are a bit nostalgic, this is a great read. He did a very good job of reading.
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- Calvin Simpson
- 04-01-22
Kid in a Candy Store
I am a politics and news freak. Have been since I was a child. I remember where I was when JFK was shot—on a playground in elementary school. I remember LBJ's "...I shall not seek..." speech. I was obsessed with Watergate. The entirety of 1973 was one, big Watergate story. I was on vacation with my friend and his parents as a lad of seventeen in Port Aransas, Texas the week before Nixon resigned.
There was no television in our cabin. On the night of August 8, 1974, we all gathered in the house on stilts of the proprietors of Gibbs Cottages to watch the speech. My friend's father was a diehard Republican. He was certain that Nixon would "tough it out." I knew better. My friend knew nothing of politics; he had no opinion. I'll never forget Nixon walking up the steps of the helicopter the next day—no longer Marine One since noon had passed—and turning around to wave to the crowd.
As much as I despised Nixon, he's always been a fascinating figure to me. I've read more biographies on Richard Nixon than any other person. Many years later, when Nixon waged a campaign to "rehabilitate" his legacy, I happened to tune in to C-Span, where he spoke on foreign policy, his strong suit IMO.
For almost two hours, I saw Nixon on that stage, walking and talking. There was a chair, but he never sat down. For that time, he spoke extemporaneously on the subject, without notes. At that moment, I begrudgingly admired him. He had visited China!
I cried when I heard he had passed away. It's a shame that he did not use his vast intellect in a positive way. Had he done so, and not given in to the dark side of his personality, he might have been a successful president.
I devoured books on Watergate, in all decades.
In this book, Carl Bernstein took us back to when journalism, post-Watergate, became the most popular major in college campuses across the United States. His telling of the events he covered, JFK's assasination, speeches by Martin Luther King, Jr., the March on Washington, and many more, takes you to the scene, as if you are there with him.
When the narrator said, "Epilogue," I was shocked. I didn't want it to end.
In this "post-truth" world, where everyone is free to create their own narrative of history, true or not, it's increasingly hard to determine which sites, which authors, which reporters, which commentators, are worth listening to or reading. Carl Bernstein is one of the last of his breed: "old school," the "real deal."
He mentioned fine journalists like Haynes Johnson and David Broder, now gone, who I watched for many years on Washington Week in Review in its glory days, when Paul Duke hosted. (Wall $treet Week with Louis Rukeyser followed.) Those days are gone. What a shame.
Anyone who lives and breathes politics and history, as I do, will enjoy this book immensely. And they will remember it. For a long time.
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- Barbara J. Fruth
- 01-22-22
Beginnings of a Star Journalist
This is a lovely account of Carl Bernstein's first job in journalism. At 16, he became a copyboy for the Washington Star. Read in part by Carl himself, it describes his hometown of Washington DC and its people, in and out of government & journalism, through 5 of its most significant years & how those years shaped one of the most important reporters of our time. It's as thick with events and personalities as the Star itself - a joy to listen to.
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- HRMusic
- 05-16-22
An American Success Story
I have a new appreciation for Carl Bernstein. All the Presidents Men has been a favorite of mine, but I must admit I've held a grudge against Carl ever since Nora Ephrom's book, Heartburn.
After which, he moved to arrogant a**hole status in my book.😊
Now, I am aware how blessed with tenacity, talent and his multiple opportunities to be a big part of our country's story and volatile history during the 1960-1970s. The fact he that barely graduated high school just ups the ante on how amazing a reporter/historian he is.
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- Anh
- 09-18-22
CB brought back to life the old DC
Carl Bernstein was able to draw a vivid picture of DC’s journalism and DC the sedate city before it became all consumed with power, both political and celebrity culture. Bernstein’s heartfelt and lifelong sentiments for the Washington Star surprised me since I had been under the impression that Washington had long lost him to the megawatts bright lights of New York City’s media and literati world. As the case with his attachment to the Washington Star, I found his description of Washington, the city, truly genuine and touching. I appreciate that Bernstein had written this book, it gave us an appreciation of not only his talents, his doggedness, his “innocence” but also of the friends, editors and mentors who had generously given Carl an excellent education. I hope there are still people like these in today’s newsrooms who can teach and groom the next generation of Carl Bernstein.
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- Nan BeckleanTobin
- 10-17-22
Listen to or read this book!
Hugely entertaining and historically educational through the amazed eyes of a very young, very curious kid who was determined to learn everything he could about newspapering while refusing to learn anything at the college in which he was enrolled. I was rooting for him despite my exasperation at his rejection of what could, I thought, have made his life easier. Of course, forging his own path through stubborn persistence while gifted with enormous talent and energy served him very well indeed.
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