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But also it resonates today, i hope, because it's about reporting. it's about the kind of basic reporting that we need to be doing. yes, at the same time it's about this kid who gets the best seat in the country at the age of 16 and watches the civil rights movement coalesce and watches the kennedy administration and gets to go to kennedy's press conferences, and at the age of 16, yeah, i got sent to cover the president's inauguration. i got to do all those things, but it's also everything i know about reporting pretty much, i learned at "the washington star" from great reporters and a great m...

Prize, mary lou warner for covering massive resistance to desegregation in virginia, merriam attenburg for used car rackets and other terrible things that took advantage of people. so right away i had the mentors and great mentor that i had was a city editor named sid epstein. i've been blessed. i've had the two greatest editors perhaps of my lifetime in many ways, sid epstein who taught me and gave me every opportunity, i was 16, he said, go cover kennedy's inauguration. go out there and see what the crowds are doing. and the other great editor, of course, was ben bradley at "the washington p...

It would have been easy for the famous journalist to fall into the nostalgia trap with his memoir, which chronicles his earliest years in the newspaper business. Happily, he doesn't.

It would have been easy for the famous journalist to fall into the nostalgia trap with his memoir, which chronicles his earliest years in the newspaper business. Happily, he doesn't.