A Bus of My Own

Whether the subject is a hilarious NewsHour near-disaster or a personal crisis Jimmy Charles Lehrers life makes terrific copy. His consuming passion for the great days of the intercity bus line; his youthful dreams losses and embarrassments his picaresque career as a reporter interviewing murderers con men Cardinals and Elvis; his entry into public television; his observations on journalistic ethics back-roads America and the JFK assassination (to which Lehrer had an unusual front row seat); his foolproof method to stop smoking (have a heart attack); his lifelong hunger to possess "a bus of my own"all percolate with the candor and wit that are Jim Lehrers trademarks. This memoir will have readers thinking chortling even getting misty-eyed and will be remembered long after the final page has been turned.