num_pages: 445
description: Publishers Weekly described The Murrow Boys as "a lively, colloquial history of broadcast journalism that is so exciting one's impulse is to read it in a single sitting." It tells the swashbuckling tale of Edward R. Murrow and his legendary band of CBS radio journalists - Charles Collingwood, Howard K. Smith, William Shirer, Eric Sevareid, and others - as they "paint pictures in the air" from the World War II front. Brimming with personalities and anecdotal detail, it also serves up a sharp-eyed account of where the craft went wrong after the war, when vanity and commercialism increasingly intruded."This is history at its best," said Ted Anthony of AP News.
language: English
title: The Murrow Boys: Pioneers on the Front Lines of Broadcast Journalism
titlecomplete: The Murrow Boys: Pioneers on the Front Lines of Broadcast Journalism
characters: Edward R. Murrow
genres: American History, War, Nonfiction, Journalism, World War II, History, Germany, 20th Century, Biography, France
ratings_count: 750
publisher: Mariner Books