A Good Life

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"On August 8, 1942, I graduated from Harvard by
the skin of my teeth at 10:00 A.M. At noon, I was
commissioned an ensign in the U.S. Naval Reserve
with orders to join a new destroyer being built in
Kearny, New Jersey. And at 4:00 P.M., I married Jean
Saltonstall, the first and only girl I had been with. I
was not yet twenty-one. I had never been west of the
Berkshires or south of Washington, D.C., and I was
on my way to some place called the South Pacific,
which was not yet a musical. The education of
Benjamin C. Bradlee was finally under way."
This is the witty, candid story of a daring young
man who made his own way to the heights of
American journalism and public life, of the great
adventure that took him at only twenty years old
straight from Harvard to almost four years in the
shooting war in the South Pacific, and back, from a
maverick New Hampshire weekly to an apprentice-
ship for Newsweek in postwar Paris, then to the
Washington Bureau chief's desk, and... Tovább

Fülszöveg

"On August 8, 1942, I graduated from Harvard by
the skin of my teeth at 10:00 A.M. At noon, I was
commissioned an ensign in the U.S. Naval Reserve
with orders to join a new destroyer being built in
Kearny, New Jersey. And at 4:00 P.M., I married Jean
Saltonstall, the first and only girl I had been with. I
was not yet twenty-one. I had never been west of the
Berkshires or south of Washington, D.C., and I was
on my way to some place called the South Pacific,
which was not yet a musical. The education of
Benjamin C. Bradlee was finally under way."
This is the witty, candid story of a daring young
man who made his own way to the heights of
American journalism and public life, of the great
adventure that took him at only twenty years old
straight from Harvard to almost four years in the
shooting war in the South Pacific, and back, from a
maverick New Hampshire weekly to an apprentice-
ship for Newsweek in postwar Paris, then to the
Washington Bureau chief's desk, and finally to the
apex of his career at The Washington Post.
Bradlee earned a front-row seat on this exciting
journey, first as a general assignment reporter, then
as a foreign correspondent in Europe, Africa, and
the Middle East, and finally back "where I belong"
in Washington. He has been an eyewitness to most
of the seminal events of the second half of the twen-
tieth century, from Guadalcanal to Japan during
World War II, all the way through the end of the
Cold War and the political revolution of the 1990s.
He watched and talked to most of the heroes and vil-
lains who were making such vivid history so fast.
Some of them became friends. The legendary
trial lawyer Edward Bennett Williams and
humorist Art Buchwald were his best friends. Jack
Kennedy was first a neighbor, before he moved out
of Georgetown and into 1600 Pennsylvania
Avenue, then a friend. Vissza