The Times of My Life and My Life with The Times

The Times of My Life and My Life with The Times by Frankel, Max. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780385334983.

Since 1949, when Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Max Frankel began to write for The New York Times, readers have looked to his work as a lens through which they could witness Americas role in a rapidly changing world. In this vivid and unforgettable memoir, Frankel chronicles the times of his extraordinary life as he experienced them...within the context of the news stories that defined an era. A quintessentially American story, The Times of My Life traces Frankels riveting personal relationship with history...his harrowing escape from Nazi Germany...his life as an immigrant on the streets of New York...and his extraordinary half-century-long career at The Times. In a rich first-person account that moves from Hitlers Berlin to Cold War Moscow, from Castros Havana to the newsroom of Americas most influential newspaper, this powerful, compelling work interweaves Frankels personal and professional lives with the eras greatest stories, from Sputnik to the Pentagon Papers to the collapse of the Berlin Wall. And it reveals Frankels fascinating off-the-record encounters with Nikita Khrushchev, Henry Kissinger, John Kennedy, Richard Nixon, and a host of other history-makers who shaped their times--and ours. Guiding readers through Hitlers Berlin, Khrushchevs Moscow, Castros Havana, and the Washington of Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon, THE TIMES OF MY LIFE reevaluates the Cold War, and interweaves Frankels personal and professional life with the greatest stories of the era. -->