Brinkley's Beat
Subtitle: People, Places, and Events That Shaped My Time
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: October 26, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780345426796
Subjects: Editors, Journalists, Publishers; Media Studies - Electronic Media; Personal Memoirs; Biography & Autobiography / Historical; Literary; Biography / Autobiography; Fiction
First sentence: I arrived in Washington in 1943, when the city was fast becoming a crowded, bustling war capital-filled with clerks and businessmen and diplomats and exiled foreign leaders.