Making the News, Taking the News: From NBC to the Ford White House
“The politics of the 1960s-70s come to life in Nessen’s recounting of the first  15 years of his journalism career from 1962-1977. ... Political junkies will  love the details about the White House personalities and operations under Ford,  and journalists and journalism scholars will appreciate Nessen’s reflections on  the role and power of reporting.”—Judy Soldberg, Library Journal"'Vietnam dominated my life for nearly a decade,' Nessen says in his new, sprightly written memoir…Nessen devotes about half of his book to his reporting in Vietnam and about half to an inside-baseball account of his life as President Ford's spokesman. He mixes in highly personal details of his life with solid, first-person reporting on the inner workings of the Ford administration."—Mark Leepson, VVA Magazine“In this strongly written, evocative and at times very personal memoir Ron Nessen takes us on an intensely remembered journey through a unique period of American history, when it seemed the center might not hold…”—John R. Coyne Jr., Washington Times“A smooth, engaging, funny and serious jaunt through the 60’s and 70’s with Ron Nessen. All students interested in journalism, the Vietnam War, or politics will find this book a winner. It will hook the reader from the first word and is hard to put down.”—Annemarie Roscello, AASL/PLR “Outstanding” University Press Books