Double Vision: Reflections On My Heritage, Life, and Profession

Double Vision: Reflections On My Heritage, Life, and Profession

by Ben H. Bagdikian
Double Vision: Reflections On My Heritage, Life, and Profession

Double Vision: Reflections On My Heritage, Life, and Profession

by Ben H. Bagdikian

Paperback(New Edition)

$16.00 
  • SHIP THIS ITEM
    Qualifies for Free Shipping
    Choose Expedited Shipping at checkout for delivery by Thursday, April 4
  • PICK UP IN STORE
    Check Availability at Nearby Stores

Related collections and offers


Overview

An engrossing, poignant memoir by one of the nation's most respected journalists and media critics, including his youth as an Armenian immigrant and his secret acquisition of the Pentagon Papers as a Washington Post editor.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780807070673
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication date: 04/30/1997
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 256
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.50(d)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgmentsix
Prefacexiii
1A Not-So-Secret Mission1
2And 5,400 Pages of Not-So-Secret "Secrets"7
3The Good Old Days Weren't34
4Seeing Double51
5I Am "Dead"--Almost67
6The Exodus75
7My Mother95
8My Father behind His Divinity Degree108
9Uncle Fred128
10My Life as a Failure144
11"Your Kind," "Their Kind," and World War II161
12The News as Seen from Wall Street180
13I Discover I Have a Union Problem193
14Wars and Society--Bottom Up or Top Down?209
15Cardiac Therapy for Me (And the News?)226
From the B&N Reads Blog

Customer Reviews