Carl Bernstein. (2022). Chasing History: A Kid in the Newsroom. Henry Holt and Co.

Carl Bernstein. 2022. Chasing History: A Kid in the Newsroom. Henry Holt and Co.

Carl Bernstein, Chasing History: A Kid in the Newsroom. Henry Holt and Co, 2022.

Carl Bernstein. Chasing History: A Kid in the Newsroom. Henry Holt and Co, 2022.

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   • bioText: Carl Bernstein is the author or coauthor of a number of bestselling books, most notably All the President's Men, written with Bob Woodward. He, Woodward, and the Washington Post were awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for breaking and investigating the Watergate story, which led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon and set the standard for modern investigative reporting. He is also the author of biographies of Pope John Paul II and Hillary Clinton and a memoir of his family's experiences during the McCarthy era. He is currently an on-air political analyst for CNN and a contributing editor for Vanity Fair. He lives in New York City.
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A New York Times bestseller

In this triumphant memoir, Carl Bernstein, the Pulitzer Prize-winning coauthor of All the President's Men and pioneer of investigative journalism, recalls his beginnings as an audacious teenage newspaper reporter in the nation's capital—a winning tale of scrapes, gumshoeing, and American bedlam.
In 1960, Bernstein was just a sixteen-year-old at considerable risk of failing to graduate high school. Inquisitive, self-taught—and, yes, truant—Bernstein landed a job as a copyboy at the Evening Star, the afternoon paper in Washington. By nineteen, he was a reporter there.
In Chasing History: A Kid in the Newsroom, Bernstein recalls the origins of his storied journalistic career as he chronicles the Kennedy era, the swelling civil rights movement, and a slew of grisly crimes. He spins a buoyant, frenetic account of educating himself in what Bob Woodward describes as "the genius of perpetual engagement."
Funny and exhilarating, poignant and frank, Chasing History is an extraordinary memoir of life on the cusp of adulthood for a determined young man with a dogged commitment to the truth.

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   • source: Bob Woodward, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and author of 14 #1 New York Times best-selling books
   • content: "Chasing History is the brilliantly crafted personal story of Carl Bernstein's self-education as one of the great reporters of all time. He taught himself the genius of perpetual engagement that led us to Watergate--watching, looking, questioning, and overwhelming the moment. His rules--go anywhere, listen hard, push and push some more--are, to this day, the touchstone in investigative reporting."
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   • source: Jon Meacham, #1 New York Times bestselling author of His Truth Is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope
   • content: "Engaging and vivid, this memoir of the beginning of Carl Bernstein's journalistic journey is a welcome reminder of how important the press is, and how much fun it used to be. Reading it I was put in the mind of Russell Baker--always a good thing. A terrific read!"
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   • source: Eugene Robinson, Washington Post columnist and MSNBC political commentator
   • content: "Carl Bernstein's Chasing History is an irresistible, beautifully written memoir, not just of Carl's own coming of age but also of the nation's capital at a time of momentous social and cultural change. The book spans the period exactly 100 years after the Civil War years, and the epic struggle for racial justice is a major theme. Along the way we meet a host of indelible characters, including some of the greatest journalists of their generation. In a sense, Chasing History is misnamed: Bernstein captures his quarry, magnificently."
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     December 1, 2020
     

     Famous for breaking the Watergate story with Bob Woodward, Bernstein backtracks to his early-1960s experiences as a teenage reporter at the Washington Star in Chasing History. Structured around Gwendolyn Brooks's "We Real Cool," Punch Me Up to the Gods recounts award-winning poet/screenwriter Broom's upbringing in Ohio as a Black boy crushing on other boys, falling into wild sex and drug use, and finally finding his way. Laden with Academy Award, BAFTA, Golden Globe, SAG, and Grammy honors, Foxx pivots here to talk about raising two very different daughters in Act Like You Got Some Sense (400,000-copy first printing; originally scheduled for October 2020). In The Windsor Diaries, published posthumously, Howard records staying with her grandfather at Cumberland Lodge in Windsor Great Park during World War II and befriending princesses Elizabeth and Margaret. Emmy Award winner Leslie Jordan, a viral sensation, pulls out the Southern charm to tell funny stories about life and celebrity in How Y'all Doing? (100,000-copy first printing). Having started the YouTube channel Dad, How Do I? to hand out the fatherly advice and how-to tips he wishes his dad had been around to give him, Kenney here reiterates that advice while surveying his childhood and how the channel went viral (75,000-copy first printing). In Sparring with Smokin' Joe, Lewis, director of journalism at York College, CUNY, recalls the months he spent in 1981 in the gym and on the road with boxing great Joe Frazier. Brat Packer McCarthy relates a life that encompasses acting, directing, and working as an award-winning editor-at-large at National Geographic Traveler. In Sunshine Girl, Margulies shows how she created order amid the chaos of a difficult childhood to become an Emmy, Golden Globe, and Screen Actors Guild Award-winning actress. In Sinatra and Me, Oppedisano, a longtime confidant and key member of the singer's management team, reflects on Sinatra's life, loves, and commitment to his craft (100,000-copy first printing). Finally, in The Wreckage of My Presence, actress/podcaster Wilson offers funny but heartfelt essays ranging from the joys of eating in bed to her obsessive need to be liked (100,000-copy first printing)

     Copyright 2020 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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     Starred review from November 1, 2021
     Pulitzer Prize winner Bernstein (All the President's Men) looks back at his early days as a reporter, before his Watergate reporting made him a household name, in this entertaining memoir. With wry humor, he describes his apprenticeship "in the newspaper trade from ages sixteen to twenty-one." Though his poor grades and record as a juvenile delinquent made it seem that "the odds were against my ever amounting to much," Bernstein recounts how in 1960, with the help of his father, he got an interview at the now defunct Washington Star. Thanks to his persistence and charisma, Bernstein secured a job there as a copyboy and moved rapidly up the ranks. He amusingly recounts going from covering local stories to reporting on major political events—such as the fledgling Kennedy administration—all while juggling the mundanities of high school: "Now that I had covered the inauguration of the president of the United States," he recalls, "Mr. Adelman's chemistry class interested me even less." Just as enthralling are his quaint recollections of growing up in D.C., at a time when being raised there felt "akin to living in a small town that also happened to be the capital of the United States." Admirers of this remarkable journalist will find much to love in this charming account.

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     November 15, 2021
     Journalist Bernstein casts a sometimes appreciative, sometimes condemnatory eye on covering the Washington, D.C., of old, from Jim Crow to Camelot. Best known as Bob Woodward's partner in cracking the Watergate conspiracy, Bernstein grew up with ink in his blood. Even as a child he was obsessed with newspapers--and it was a golden age for newspaper readers, with nearly every city in the country hosting at least two rival publications. Until the early 1980s, Washington had two dailies: the Washington Post and the Evening Star. As a high schooler, Bernstein bluffed his way into a copyboy position at the latter: "What the copyboys did...was anything the reporters or editors asked. They pretty much made it possible for the whole place to function." His winning trait? Not any writing ability but a phenomenal typing speed, learned in a class that got him out of shop class. The whole of Washington became Bernstein's beat, guided by skilled editors who sent him on assignments such as covering the parade at John F. Kennedy's inauguration with the warning, "Be there at six a.m. Schaden will be the rewrite man. Don't try to write--just tell him what you saw." The author's reminiscences of old-school journalism--with its chaotic newsrooms, hot type, and guarded friendships among sources and writers--will please newspaper buffs, those who read the memoirs of H.L Mencken and Joseph Mitchell. Of wider interest is Bernstein's depiction of Washington in a time of desegregation and racial turmoil, when city officials drained public pools "rather than allow Black families to swim in them." Of being raised in D.C., the author writes, "I thought sometimes, [it] was akin to living in a small town that also happened to be the capital of the United States. Washingtonians had a kind of double vision of these people--as ordinary neighbors, but also as historic figures." Bernstein is now one such figure, and his book bears that weight. An appealingly nostalgic view of a political past unriven by political tribalism, chronicled by a reporter with an eye on history.

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     Starred review from December 1, 2021
     Readers of All the President's Men and The Final Days learned about Bernstein's most consequential days as a journalist. And Nora Ephron wrote about his failings as a husband in Heartburn. In this memoir of his earliest days working for the Washington Star, a different Bernstein emerges: the scrappy kid in love with newspapers, who saw his path and followed it with determination and aplomb. Bernstein was a high-schooler when he started at the paper, working his way up from copy boy to reporter. Here, he chronicles a long-gone time when the presses clanged, Runyonesque characters abounded, and a teenager could rub shoulders with top-notch journalists like Mary McGrory and David Broder. This is also a multifaceted portrait of greater DC, Bernstein's home town. Bernstein is something of a Zelig here, turning up in a reportorial role at multiple historic events: the March on Washington, President Kennedy's funeral, even a Beatles sighting. He also looks closely at what he saw around him: the hostility to civil rights, political patronage, and the white male privilege of the newsroom (only a few women got a shot; there was one Black male reporter). Bernstein catches history in this thoroughly absorbing read.

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     December 10, 2021
     

     Pulitzer Prize--winning journalists Bernstein and Woodward set the standard for investigative reporting for decades to come with their work on the Watergate scandal. Bernstein (co-author, All the King's Men) chronicles how he got his start as a newspaperman prior to his ground-breaking career with the Washington Post. As a teenager, he was determined to become a journalist, obtaining his first job as a copyboy at the Washington Star through perseverance, knowledge of the Washington, DC, metro area, and the typing skills he acquired in high school instead of taking the shop classes expected of him at the time. Although not academically inclined, he moved up in the organization through his dedication and hard work, eventually taking on political reporting jobs and doing investigative research for the paper. With engaging writing, he details his path from copyboy to a dictationist to an award-winning journalist, offering insight into the political events he covered along the way. VERDICT Aspiring journalists and readers interested in mid-20th-century news events and politics will enjoy this colorful slice-of-life portrait of a bygone era, where once the clatter of a typewriter and the bustle of a newsroom permeated the newspaper industry.--Donna Marie Smith, Palm Beach Cty. Lib. Syst., FL

     Copyright 2021 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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In 1960, Bernstein was just a sixteen-year-old at considerable risk of failing to graduate high school. Inquisitive, self-taught—and, yes, truant—Bernstein landed a job as a copyboy at the Evening Star, the afternoon paper in Washington. By nineteen, he was a reporter there.
In Chasing History: A Kid in the Newsroom, Bernstein recalls the origins of his storied journalistic career as he chronicles the Kennedy era, the swelling civil rights movement, and a slew of grisly crimes. He spins a buoyant, frenetic account of educating himself in what Bob Woodward describes as "the genius of...

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