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William L. Shirer and the American Century
McGill-Queen's University Press
May 2015
On Sale: May 1, 2015
Featuring: William Shirer
ISBN: 0773545441
EAN: 9780773545441
Kindle: B00VXV6L2G
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Non-Fiction Biography
William Shirer (1904-1993), a star foreign correspondent
with the Chicago Tribune in the 1920s and ’30s, was a
prominent member of what one contemporary observer described
as an extraordinary band of American journalists, "some with
the Midwest hayseed still in their hair," who gave their
North American audiences a visceral sense of how Europe was
spiralling into chaos and war.
In 1937, Shirer left
print journalism and became the first of the now legendary
"Murrow boys," working as an on-air partner to the iconic
CBS broadcaster Edward R. Murrow. With Shirer reporting from
inside Nazi Germany and Murrow from blitz-ravaged London,
the pair built CBS’s European news operation into the
industry leader and, in the process, revolutionized
broadcasting. But after the war ended, the Shirer-Murrow
relationship shattered. Shirer lost his job and by 1950
found himself blacklisted as a supposed Communist
sympathizer. After nearly a decade in the professional
wilderness, he began work on The Rise and Fall of the Third
Reich. Published in 1960, Shirer's magnum opus sold millions
of copies and was hailed as the masterwork that would
"ensure his reputation as long as humankind
reads."
Ken Cuthbertson's A Complex Fate is a
thought-provoking, richly detailed biography of William
Shirer. Written with the full cooperation of Shirer’s
family, and generously illustrated with photographs, it
introduces a new generation of readers to a supremely
talented, complex writer, while placing into historical
context some of the pivotal media developments of our time.
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