Harry M. Reasoner
Author | : Harry M. Reasoner |
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Total Pages | : 33 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Lawyers |
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Author | : Harry M. Reasoner |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 33 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Lawyers |
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Author | : Harry M. Reasoner |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 66 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Law schools |
ISBN | : 9780935630602 |
Author | : Douglass K. Daniel |
Publisher | : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 293 |
Release | : 2009-12-03 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0292782365 |
Harry Reasoner was one of the most trusted and well-liked journalists of the golden age of network television news. Whether anchoring the evening newscast on CBS in the 1960s or on ABC in the 1970s, providing in-depth reporting on 60 Minutes, or hosting numerous special programs covering civil rights struggles, the Vietnam War, and Watergate, Reasoner had "that almost mystical quality it seems to take for good television reporting, exuding this atmosphere of truth and believability," in the words of Walter Cronkite. Yet his reassuring manner and urbane, often witty, on-air persona masked a man who was far more complex and contradictory. Though gifted with the intelligence and drive to rise to the top of his profession, Reasoner was regarded by many colleagues as lazy and self-indulgent, a man who never achieved his full potential despite his many accomplishments. Harry Reasoner: A Life in the News covers the entire sweep of this enigmatic journalist's life and career. Douglass K. Daniel opens with Reasoner's Depression-era Midwestern upbringing and follows him through his early work in newspapers and radio before he joined CBS in 1956. Focusing on Reasoner's thirty-five-year tenure in television news, Daniel presents fascinating, behind-the-scenes accounts of Reasoner's key role in founding the top-rated newsmagazine 60 Minutes. He also explores Reasoner's highly publicized move to ABC in 1970, where he anchored the nightly newscast, first with Howard K. Smith and later with Barbara Walters—a disastrous pairing from which Reasoner's career never fully recovered. Based on scores of interviews and unpublished letters, memos, and other primary sources, this first biography of the man once rated second in credibility only to Walter Cronkite illuminates an entire era in broadcast journalism, as well as many of the unique personalities, from Andy Rooney to Mike Wallace, who made that era distinctive.
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Total Pages | : 1168 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Energy policy |
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Author | : United States. Supreme Court |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 908 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Law reports, digests, etc |
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Author | : United States. Supreme Court |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 604 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Constitutional law |
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Author | : Clare Cushman |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 2011-10-16 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1442212470 |
In the first Supreme Court history told primarily through eyewitness accounts from Court insiders, Clare Cushman provides readers with a behind-the-scenes look at the people, practices, and traditions that have shaped an American institution for more than 200 years. Each chapter covers one general thematic topic and weaves a narrative from memoirs, letters, diaries, and newspaper accounts by the Justices, their spouses and children, court reporters, clerks, oral advocates, court staff, journalists, and other eyewitnesses. These accounts allow readers to feel as if they are squeezed into the packed courtroom in 1844 as silver-tongued orator Daniel Webster addresses the court; eavesdropping on an exasperated Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., in 1930 as he snaps at a clerk’s critique of his draft opinion; or sharing a taxi with future Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., in 2005 as he rushes home from the airport in anticipation of a phone call from President Bush offering him the nomination to the Supreme Court. This entertaining and enlightening tour of the Supreme Court’s colorful personalities and inner workings will be of interest to all readers of American political and legal history.
Author | : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works. Subcommittee on Air and Water Pollution |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1252 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Air |
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Author | : Peter Charles Hoffer |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 561 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0199387907 |
There are moments in American history when all eyes are focused on a federal court: when its bench speaks for millions of Americans, and when its decision changes the course of history. More often, the story of the federal judiciary is simply a tale of hard work: of finding order in the chaotic system of state and federal law, local custom, and contentious lawyering. The Federal Courts is a story of all of these courts and the judges and justices who served on them, of the case law they made, and of the acts of Congress and the administrative organs that shaped the courts. But, even more importantly, this is a story of the courts' development and their vital part in America's history. Peter Charles Hoffer, Williamjames Hull Hoffer, and N. E. H. Hull's retelling of that history is framed the three key features that shape the federal courts' narrative: the separation of powers; the federal system, in which both the national and state governments are sovereign; and the widest circle: the democratic-republican framework of American self-government. The federal judiciary is not elective and its principal judges serve during good behavior rather than at the pleasure of Congress, the President, or the electorate. But the independence that lifetime tenure theoretically confers did not and does not isolate the judiciary from political currents, partisan quarrels, and public opinion. Many vital political issues came to the federal courts, and the courts' decisions in turn shaped American politics. The federal courts, while the least democratic branch in theory, have proved in some ways and at various times to be the most democratic: open to ordinary people seeking redress, for example. Litigation in the federal courts reflects the changing aspirations and values of America's many peoples. The Federal Courts is an essential account of the branch that provides what Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Judge Oliver Wendell Homes Jr. called "a magic mirror, wherein we see reflected our own lives."
Author | : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1376 |
Release | : 1974 |
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