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This author appeared at the 2012 festival. Please view the list of authors appearing at this year's festival or see our suggestions for similar authors below.
 Douglas Brinkley
As much an icon of American history as the events he covered during the
course of his career, Walter Cronkite was one of those rare men who
could be identified by last name alone. From his first major story on
the freak explosion of an East Texas school, to his reporting on WWII
and on through his CBS career, Douglas Brinkley’s Cronkite
offers the untold story of the man who guided a nation through turbulent
times by newspaper, radio, and televised programming. From the time
Cronkite was fired from one of his earliest jobs in news for refusing to
break journalistic integrity, to the truth behind accusations that
Cronkite went on a personal crusade against Senator Barry Goldwater
during his campaign, Brinkley goes in-depth into Cronkite’s history to
piece together a living portrait of someone considered a legend in his
own time. “Cronkite emerges as a more interesting character than the
avuncular anchor of the CBS Evening News,” the Chicago Tribune writes. “Brinkley shows how Cronkite emerged from Depression-era
Missouri and Texas plagued with apprehension about unemployment, and had
the kind of complicated relationships … that make life, and reading,
interesting.” Brinkley has been featured at many prior Festivals, most
recently in 2011 for his book The Quiet World: Saving Alaska’s Wilderness Kingdom, 1879-1960. He is a professor at Rice University and the author of The Wilderness Warrior and The Reagan Diaries, among others. Brinkley lives in Austin.
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