From Prague to Jerusalem : : An Uncommon Journey of a Journalist / / Milan Kubic.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
• VerfasserIn: Kubic, Milan,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2021]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (312 p.) :; 15 illustrations

After spending his childhood in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia and witnessing the Communist takeover of his country in 1948, a young journalist named Milan Kubic embarked on a career as a Newsweek correspondent that spanned thirty-one years and three continents, reporting on some of the most memorable events in the Middle East. Now, Kubic tells this fascinating story in depth. Kubic describes his escape to the US Zone in West Germany, his life in the Displaced Persons camps, and his arrival in 1950s America, where he worked as a butler and factory worker and served in a US Army intelligence unit during Senator Joe McCarthy's witch-hunting years. Hired by Newsweek after graduating from journalism school, Kubic covered the White House during the last year of Dwight D. Eisenhower's presidency, the US Senate run by Lyndon Johnson, and the campaign that elected President John F. Kennedy. Kubic spent twenty-six years reporting from abroad, including South America, the Indian subcontinent, and Eastern and Western Europe. Of particular interest is his account of the seventeen years—starting with the Six Day War in 1967—when he watched the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from Beirut and Jerusalem. In From Prague to Jerusalem, readers will meet the principal Israeli participants in the Irangate affair, accompany Kubic on his South American tour with Bobby Kennedy, take part in his jungle encounter with the king of Belgium, witness the inglorious end of Timothy Leary's flight to the Middle East, and observe the debunking of Hitler's bogus diaries. This riveting memoir will appeal to general readers and scholars interested in journalism, the Middle East, and US history and politics.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PROLOGUE -- PART I -- CHAPTER 1 THE END OF AN ERA -- CHAPTER 2 THE FIRST CATASTROPHE: World War II -- CHAPTER 3 AN UNEASY INTERLUDE -- CHAPTER 4 THE SECOND CATASTROPHE: Communist Coup d'Etat -- CHAPTER 5 ESCAPE TO THE US ZONE IN GERMANY -- CHAPTER 6 IN THE REFUGEE CAMPS -- CHAPTER 7 WAITING FOR A US VISA -- CHAPTER 8 AMERICA! -- PART II -- CHAPTER 9 ON THE STAFF OF NEWSWEEK -- CHAPTER 10 FRUSTRATED IN THE HEMISPHERE -- CHAPTER 11 MY QUARREL WITH THE REFORMADORES -- CHAPTER 12 THE SIX DAY WAR AND ITS AFTERMATH -- CHAPTER 13 ARAFAT AND THE RISE OF THE PLO -- CHAPTER 14 COVERING THE LOSERS' BEAT -- CHAPTER 15 WATCHING THE SOVIET SATELLITES -- CHAPTER 16 MEETING THE NEW GERMANS -- PART III -- CHAPTER 17 MY LAST BEAT: Israel -- CHAPTER 18 MENACHEM BEGIN AND THE RISE OF ISRAErS RIGHT -- CHAPTER 19 ISRAEL'S SECRET KEEPERS-AND LEAKERS -- CHAPTER 20 POLLARD, IRAN GATE, AND BUS 300 -- CHAPTER 21 MY QUARREL WITH ISRAEL -- CHAPTER 22 THE WEST BANKERS -- EPILOGUE