Assignment Russia

Marvin Kalb

doi:10.5771/9780815738978

Assignment Russia

Becoming a Foreign Correspondent in the Crucible of the Cold War

Published 2021

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doi.org/10.5771/9780815738978
ISBN print: 978-0-8157-3896-1
ISBN online: 978-0-8157-3897-8
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham

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Abstract

A personal journey through some of the darkest moments of the cold war and the early days of television news

Marvin Kalb, the award-winning journalist who has written extensively about the world he reported on during his long career, now turns his eye on the young man who became that journalist. Chosen by legendary broadcaster Edward R. Murrow to become one of what came to be known as the Murrow Boys, Kalb in this newest volume of his memoirs takes readers back to his first days as a journalist, and what also were the first days of broadcast news.

Kalb captures the excitement of being present at the creation of a whole new way of bringing news immediately to the public. And what news. Cold War tensions were high between Eisenhower's America and Khrushchev's Soviet Union. Kalb is at the center, occupying a unique spot as a student of Russia tasked with explaining Moscow to Washington and the American public. He joins a cast of legendary figures along the way, from Murrow himself to Eric Severeid, Howard K. Smith, Richard Hottelet, Charles Kuralt, and Daniel Schorr among many others. He finds himself assigned as Moscow correspondent of CBS News just as the U2 incidentthe downing of a US spy plane over Russian territoryis unfolding.

As readers of his first volume, The Year I Was Peter the Great, will recall, being the right person, in the right place, at the right time found Kalb face to face with Khrushchev. Assignment Russia sees Kalb once again an eyewitness to historyand a writer and analyst who has helped shape the first draft of that history.

Schlagworte

Murrow boys Moscow Soviet Union Washington United States Eric Edward R. Murrow Eisenhower u.s-soviet relations television news the year i was peter the great Khrushchev cold war cold war tensions foreign correspondent early television news

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i–xiv Preface i–xiv
1–13 Joining a "Band of Brothers" 1–13
14–37 CBS's "Specialist on Soviet Affairs" 14–37
38–63 Broadcasting's One Thing, Writing's Another 38–63
64–88 A Book, a Documentary, and a New Idea 64–88
89–108 "The Russians are Coming" 89–108
109–128 The Sino-Soviet Alliance: Mysteries, Puzzles, and Enigmas 109–128
129–155 Around the World in 100 Days—Part One 129–155
156–187 Around the World—Part Two 156–187
188–200 A Dream Come True 188–200
201–220 The Paris Summit: Ike vs. Nikita 201–220
221–242 ...And, Finally, Moscow 221–242
243–267 Censors, Circuits, and Double Beds 243–267
268–278 Bargaining with Bureaucrats 268–278
279–294 The "Pigeon" Lost in my Pasternak Adventure 279–294
295–312 "Do Svidaniia" 295–312
313–322 Saying No to Murrow? 313–322
323–backcover1 Index 323–backcover1

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