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You Must Remember This: A Reporter's Odyssey from Camalot to Glastnost
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No century chronicles as many milestones as the twentieth. Two world wars. The atomic bomb. Medical breakthroughs by the score. Men on the moon. The birth of the airplane, movies, television, pushbutton phones, and the Internet. The phenomenon of suburbia and the shopping mall. Just for starters.Lansing Lamont spent his childhood hearing stories from the front lines of the
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Feb 10, 2009
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Lamont's memoir of his life is light, chatty, and easy to read. It is by no means a toss-away; rather, it is a serious, if pleased and pleasant, review of this reporter's life, family, and career. If the book lacks depth, it makes up for that in charm and interest.
Part of its charm for me was the world and national events he covered for Time. I do remember most of it, although he's 15 years older than I; and there's a definite tug of "oh, yes" recognition in many of his stories. I'll bet I read ...more
Part of its charm for me was the world and national events he covered for Time. I do remember most of it, although he's 15 years older than I; and there's a definite tug of "oh, yes" recognition in many of his stories. I'll bet I read ...more
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A graduate of Harvard University and Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, Lansing Lamont was a national political correspondent for Time magazine’s Washington bureau from 1961 – 1968. During that time, he covered the assassinations of John F. Kennedy and Robert Kennedy, as well as the 1964 and 1968 Republication and Democratic conventions and presidential campaigns. He was deputy chi
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