History On The Run

SUB-TITLE: The Trenchcoat Memoirs of a Foreign Correspondent. BOOK NUMBER: 6701-1. COVER PHOTOGRAPH: Peter Croydon. CONTENTS: Preface; Prologue 1 Writing for the Kansas City Milkman 2 Correspondent in Waiting 3 The Washington Beat 4 The Freelance Life 5 The New Frontier 6 One Minute to Midnight 7 Hello Lyndon 8 Vietnam 9 That Slum of a Year 10 Back Home Again; Index. SYNOPSIS: For close to thirty years Knowlton Nash has been "the news" for Canadians--that knowledgeable, believable, and articulate correspondent, and more recently, anchorman, who keeps us informed and up-to-date with happenings at home and abroad. Here at last is Nash's candid and highly personal reminiscence of the remarkable globe-trotting career that has spanned continents, seen him at the centre of the major news stories of our lifetimes, and taken him to the top of his chosen profession. From 1951 to 1969, Nash was based in "the greatest world centre of news since Rome"--Washington, D.C. During that time he covered the rise and fall of McCarthyism, presidencies from Eisenhower to Nixon, and the careers of John and Robert Kennedy. Nash has also covered history-making events from the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya to the Cuban Missile Crisis; walked on patrol in Vietnam with a frightened farmboy from Kansas; and, closer to home, shared private moments with Prime Ministers Diefenbaker, Pearson, Clark, and Trudeau. History on the Run is at once a memoir, an insider's look at the birth and phenomenal growth of television journalism, and a top-ranking newsman's history of the times in which we live.