CBS's Don Hollenbeck : : An Honest Reporter in the Age of McCarthyism / / Loren Ghiglione.
Loren Ghiglione recounts the fascinating life and tragic suicide of Don Hollenbeck, the controversial newscaster who became a primary target of McCarthyism's smear tactics. Drawing on unsealed FBI records, private family correspondence, and interviews with Walter Cronkite, Mike Wallace, Charles...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2008] ©2008 |
| Year of Publication: | 2008 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (352 p.) :; 23 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. The Boy from Lincoln
- 2. Working for William Randolph Hearst in Omaha
- 3. The Founding of PM, a "Newspaperman's Ideal"
- 4. Politics at PM: Commies and "Good Liberals"
- 5. Covering World War II from Home and Abroad
- 6. Getting Fired by NBC and ABC, Then Hired by CBS
- 7. The Invention of CBS Views the Press
- 8. Jack O'Brian: Buffalo Dock-Walloper to Broadway Drama Critic
- 9. Press Criticism: From Name-calling to Nuance
- 10. Jack O'Brian: Championing Decency, Fighting Soft-on-Communism Liberals
- 11. The Obsession with Subversives and Communist Spies
- 12. Jack O'Brian: Traveling with the Conservative, Anti-Commie Crowd
- 13. The Hearsts Versus Hollenbeck
- 14. Jack O'Brian: Attacking the Communist Broadcasting System
- 15. Loyalty Oaths, Blacklists, and Joseph McCarthy
- 16. The Walking Wounded
- 17. The Sermon in the Suicide
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index