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Cronkite, Douglas Brinkley. New York: Harper,

Summary: The biography of Walter Cronkite, from his early reporting days, his United Press work during World War 2, and his years at CBS, including his nineteen years on the CBS Evening News, and his &#;retirement years,&#; where he came out as a liberal.

I grew up with &#;Uncle Walter.&#; I was a fourth grader when John F.

Kennedy was assassinated and watched as Walter Cronkite walked us through the days that followed, from his initial announcement of the death of Kennedy, removing his glasses and sitting in silence, connecting with the stunned response of all of us.

I watched the unfolding of the Vietnam war, which Cronkite declared, after visiting the front lines in , a &#;stalemate.&#; He covered the horrors of from the deaths of Kennedy and King through the turbulent Democratic convention.

With the world, I watched the orbiting of the moon on Christmas eve in , and the landing on the moon in the sum