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Before he took on Sen. Joseph McCarthy on America's television screens, broadcasting pioneer Edward R. Murrow delivered the Blitz to American radio, reporting nightly from the streets of London during the darkest days of World War II. Now, the newsman at the center of George Clooney's Oscar-nominated "Good Night, and Good Luck" is the subject of a highly praised book by Philip Seib.
"Broadcasts From the Blitz: How Edward R. Murrow Helped Lead America Into War" (Potomac Books, $24.95) details Murrow's wrenching accounts of Nazi aggression in Europe and explains how he worked with Winston Churchill and President Franklin D. Roosevelt to rouse a nation and bring the United States into the war. In the words of Murrow's successor, Walter Cronkite, it also tells the story of a man who "without any plan, preparation or training ... became one of America's best-known and respected journalists."See the full content of this document
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