A Life on the Road

About this book

For more than 30 years Charles Kuralt the host of CBS News Sunday Morning has traveled the worlds byways. In this warm deeply affecting memoir Kuralt retraces the steps of a journey that began when he was a young CBS news reporter frantically trying to cover international events a journey that took him to South America Vietnam and the Okefenokee Swamp. From an Arizona cowboy who confessed to wearing pantyhose under his chaps and a Moscow dentist who tearfully thanked former American POWs for saving his life in a German prison camp to memorable meetings with Marlon Brando and Nikita Khrushchev -- here is a story of triumphs and tragedies swimming pigs and cattle roundups and one mans lifelong love of the road and the people hes met along the way.