{"product_id":"assignment-russia-becoming-a-foreign-correspondent-in-the-crucible-of-the-cold-war-9780815738961","title":"Assignment Russia: Becoming a Foreign Correspondent in the Crucible of the Cold War","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA personal journey through some of the darkest moments of the cold war and the early days of television news\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarvin Kalb, the award-winning journalist who has written extensively about the world he reported on during his long career, now turns his eye on the young man who became that journalist. Chosen by legendary broadcaster Edward R. Murrow to become one of what came to be known as the Murrow Boys, Kalb in this newest volume of his memoirs takes readers back to his first days as a journalist, and what also were the first days of broadcast news.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKalb captures the excitement of being present at the creation of a whole new way of bringing news immediately to the public. And what news. Cold War tensions were high between Eisenhower's America and Khrushchev's Soviet Union. Kalb is at the center, occupying a unique spot as a student of Russia tasked with explaining Moscow to Washington and the American public. He joins a cast of legendary figures along the way, from Murrow himself to Eric Severeid, Howard K. Smith, Richard Hottelet, Charles Kuralt, and Daniel Schorr among many others. He finds himself assigned as Moscow correspondent of CBS News just as the U2 incident--the downing of a US spy plane over Russian territory--is unfolding.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs readers of his first volume, \u003ci\u003eThe Year I Was Peter the Great\u003c\/i\u003e, will recall, being the right person, in the right place, at the right time found Kalb face to face with Khrushchev. \u003ci\u003eAssignment Russia\u003c\/i\u003e sees Kalb once again an eyewitness to history--and a writer and analyst who has helped shape the first draft of that history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKalb witnessed and interpreted many of the defining events of the Cold War. In \u003ci\u003eAssignment Russia\u003c\/i\u003e he ultimately finds himself assigned as Moscow correspondent for CBS News just as the U-2 incident--the downing of a U.S. spy plane over Russian territory--is unfolding. Kalb brings alive once again the tension that surrounded that event, and the reportorial skills deployed to illuminate it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike \u003ci\u003eThe Year I Was Peter the Great\u003c\/i\u003e, the first volume in a series of memoirs narrating his earlier life, \u003ci\u003eAssignment Russia\u003c\/i\u003e brings us Kalb once again as an eyewitness to history--and a writer and analyst who has helped shape the first draft of that history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Brookings Institution Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/13\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780815738961\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 359\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.20w x 1.20d","brand":"Marvin Kalb","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39463381565621,"sku":"9780815738961","price":21.24,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_24a0ac06-616c-4879-8f67-624939a1a1f8.jpg?v=1615923898","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/assignment-russia-becoming-a-foreign-correspondent-in-the-crucible-of-the-cold-war-9780815738961","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}