In Search of History: A Personal AdventureThe memoirs of a political reporter and foreign correspondent who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1962. |
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... story of the crisis be edited into a lie , an entirely dishonorable story . And , thereafter , the breach between us widened to anger . Luce's court favorite at that moment in New York was Whittaker Chambers , a former Communist ...
... story of the crisis be edited into a lie , an entirely dishonorable story . And , thereafter , the breach between us widened to anger . Luce's court favorite at that moment in New York was Whittaker Chambers , a former Communist ...
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... story . " I tried to emulate her but I was , in that season , unable to write " happy " copy . I could score , when I tried , with a story , say of Dr. Chiang Chien- tsai , the most famous herb doctor in China , whose clientele included ...
... story . " I tried to emulate her but I was , in that season , unable to write " happy " copy . I could score , when I tried , with a story , say of Dr. Chiang Chien- tsai , the most famous herb doctor in China , whose clientele included ...
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... story and France did not . It was so much harder to report France and French politics than Germany - not because nothing was happening but because so much was . In Germany , for years , there was only one story : Would the beast , Kurt ...
... story and France did not . It was so much harder to report France and French politics than Germany - not because nothing was happening but because so much was . In Germany , for years , there was only one story : Would the beast , Kurt ...
Contents
Prologue The Storyteller | 1 |
ONE Exercise in Recollection | 13 |
THE SIGHTSEER | 59 |
Copyright | |
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