My own thoughts on this book are similar to those expressed in Stephanie's review. I give it three stars instead of her two, only because I found Cronkite's story to be so interesting and compelling, although it could and should have been told better, especially by someone with Douglas Brinkley's credentials. His acknowledgements include a long list of individuals who supposedly reviewed the manuscript before it was published, but if such was the case, I wonder how so many errors made it into the final version. The text is replete with them, but here a few examples suffice:

-- He mentions September 2, 1963 -- "Memorial Day" -- as the date of the inaugural 30-minute broadcast of CBS Evening News. The date is indeed correct, but it was Labor Day, not Memorial Day.

-- He refers to "a C-47 bombing mission over Germany during World War II." The C-47 was a transport plane, not a bomber.

-- He states that "only the CBS eye logo" was displayed on-screen as Cronkite announced the shooting of President John F. Kennedy. It is true that the first announcement was accompanied by a graphic, but it was not the famous eye logo; instead, it consisted simply of the words "CBS News Bulletin," set against a black background.

-- He identifies the police officer slain by Lee Harvey Oswald as "James Tippit." If I remember correctly, Tippit had no first or middle name and was always known as "J. D." But in any event, in the nearly 50 years since the JFK assassination, I have never once seen or heard him identified as "James," at least not until now. If that was in fact his first name, this is not technically an error, but referring to him thus is something akin to, say, identifying the 28th President of the United States as Tommy Wilson.

-- He mentions an anthology of speeches by Senator Robert F. Kennedy, supposedly titled To Make A Newer World. The correct title was To Seek A Newer World, from a line in Tennyson's Ulysses, which was one of RFK's favorite poems.

-- He identifies the launch vehicle for John Glenn's Friendship 7 space capsule as a Redstone rocket, when in fact it was an Atlas.

-- Finally, he refers to "Cape Kennedy" in connection with Glenn's second space flight, in 1998 aboard the shuttle Discovery. But the launch site had reverted to its former name of Cape Canaveral some 25 years previously.

I found the book worth reading once, although I won't read it a second time. It was a story that deserved to be told, but Douglas Brinkley, of all people, should have done a better job of telling it.