Charles Kuralt's People

by Charles Kuralt

A collection of award-winning newspaper columns written in 1956, at the beginning of Kuralt's journalistic career, presents stories of the ordinary people of Charlotte, North Carolina.

396 pages, Hardcover

First published September 1, 2002

About the author

Charles Kuralt was an award-winning American journalist. He was most widely known for his long career with CBS, first for his "On the Road" segments on The CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite, and later as the first anchor of CBS News Sunday Morning, a position he held for fifteen years.

Kuralt's "On the Road" segments were recognized twice with personal Peabody Awards. The first, awarded in 1968, cited those segments as heartwarming and "nostalgic vignettes"; in 1975, the award was for his work as a U.S. "bicentennial historian"; his work "capture[d] the individuality of the people, the dynamic growth inherent in the area, and ...the rich heritage of this great nation." He shared in a third Peabody awarded to CBS News Sunday Morning.

Reviews

[KennyO]

In the mid-1960s following a decade of hard news reporting, Charles Kuralt persuaded his bosses at CBS to turn him loose to “see what he could see” on America’s back roads. The seed for that idea was a column he’d written as a young reporter for the Charlotte [North Carolina] News in 1955-1956 simply titled People. This book is a republishing of those columns, less the single column that wasn’t found. Each one tells a brief story about a person in Charlotte. An ordinary person, not a figure of authority or celebrity. The columns, as printed here, are two pages apiece and if you have watched and listened to Kuralt over the years, you’ll certainly recognize his characteristic voice and style before it matured.

Don’t read it like a novel. Pick it up from time to time and put aside your cares by reading Kuralt’s respectful and upbeat People stories.