This ...Is CBS: A Chronicle of 60 Years - Hardcover

Slater, Robert

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0139192344 ISBN 13: 9780139192340

Publisher: Prentice Hall Direct, 1988

Synopsis

Chronicles the evolution of the controversial network from its birth in 1928, through its rise to prominence, to its slow decline, focusing on the luminaries who have figured in the rise and fall of CBS

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From Library Journal:

Slater accurately calls this a narrative history of CBS. Parts of this chatty book should be read aloud, preferably by a Murrow or Cronkite. "This might have been the story of a cigarmaker, or no story at all . . .," Chapter 1 begins. Though not a comprehensive history, the book explores the development of radio and television from 1928 to the present, as well as politics, programming, and personalities at CBS. The author, a Time correspondent, does not offer the sometimes limited inside view of Bill Leonard's In the Storm of the Eye ( LJ 5/15/87) or Peter McCabe's Bad News at Black Rock ( LJ 4/15/87). A useful addition to general and mass communication collections, the book would have benefited from a few new words from Chairman Bill Paley, the cigar maker's son who started it all. He declined to be interviewed, according to Slater, because he's writing a second book of memoirs. Jo Cates, Poynter Inst. for Media Studies Lib., St. Petersburg, Fla.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Prentice Hall Direct
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0139192344
• ISBN 13: 9780139192340
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 354