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You Must Remember This: A Reporter's Odyssey from Camelot to Glastnost
You Must Remember This A Reporter's Odyssey from Camelot to Glastnost Author:Lansing Lamont "No century chronicles as many milestones as the twentieth. Two world wars. The atomic bomb. Medical breakthroughs by the score. Men on the moon. The birth of the airplane, movies, television, pushbutton phones, and the Internet. The phenomenon of suburbia and the shopping mall. Just for starters." Forty years after John F. Kennedy's ... more »casket was borne aloft before the world's dignitaries in a hushed Washington cathedral, riots and pillaging rocked the Capital in the wake of Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination, and Robert Kennedy lay dying on the blood-soaked floor of a hotel pantry in Los Angeles, Lamont recounts the incredible events he covered as a reporter for Time Magazine. In this rich narrative memoir, Lamont brings to life many of the significant events of the legendary 1960s and the historical figures who shaped them. From the politicians and scientists, from Lyndon Johnson to Robert Oppenheimer, Lamont's portrayals illuminate the men and women who left an indelible mark on their times.« less