Research Catalog

Title

The place to be : Washington, CBS, and the glory days of television news / Roger Mudd.

Author

Mudd, Roger, 1928-2021.

Publication

New York : PublicAffairs, [2008], ©2008.

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Holdings

Details

Description

xv, 413 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

"Roger Mudd joined CBS at a time when its Washington bureau was instrumental in setting the agenda at home and abroad on issues like Vietnam, civil rights, and Watergate. He rose to fame as the CBS congressional correspondent, covering the historic Senate filibuster debate over the 1964 Civil Rights Act, during which he appeared on the Capitol steps every morning, noon, and night for twelve weeks. As one of half a dozen major figures in the stable of CBS News broadcasters at the time, Roger Mudd was there to see Dan Rather going toe-to-toe at the Nixon White House, Marvin Kalb deciphering the State Department, Daniel Schorr bird-dogging Watergate, Lesley Stahl and Connie Chung staking out all the president's men, George Herman presiding over Face the Nation, Bob Schieffer covering the Pentagon like a police reporter, and Eric Sevareid making what he called "small sounds in the night."" "The Place to Be is a chronicle of why the pursuit of news was a consuming passion for the hundreds of reporters, editors, producers, cameramen, technicians, and couriers in the newsroom. It's the story both of a unique TV news bureau - unmatched in its quality, competitiveness, and professionalism - and of one reporter's passion and commitment."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

• CBS News History
• Television journalists > United States > Biography
• Mudd, Roger, 1928-

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 389-400) and index.

Contents

1. The Glory Years -- 2. Gimme Rewrite -- 3. Pipe Poeus -- 4. Home to Stay -- 5. You'll Be Local the Rest of Your Life -- 6. Take Two, Take Three -- 7. Old Four Fingers -- 8. Mister Small -- 9. The Desk -- 10. The Front Row -- 11. The Back Row -- 12. The Four Rules of Sevareid -- 13. Wolves on the Prowl -- 14. Wanted by the FBI -- 15. Nothing Could Be Finer -- 16. "The Hunkies Have Run Amok" -- 17. The Useful Pest -- 18. The March on Washington -- 19. The Rumormonger -- 20. Where Were You When...? -- 21. "A Sad, Sorry Mess" -- 22. "What Do We Do Now, Dick?" -- 23. "Will You Wave, Sir?" -- 24. The Minnesota Twins -- 25. Mister Ev, the Talking Horse -- 26. "Not While I'm Around" -- 27. "Of Course, It's a Great Body" -- 28. "Who the Hell Is Alexander Kendrick?" -- 29. "How about Bobbsie?" -- 30. "I Don't Know. I Don't Know" -- 31. Too Deep a Hole -- 32. "Ma'am, I've Been Hit, Too" -- 33. "Nixon's the One What?" -- 34. Hitting Our Stride -- 35. The Hand That Feeds You -- 36. Yes, No, and Just a Little Bit -- 37. The Stakeout Queens -- 38. "I Think I Got It - I Hope I Got It" -- 39. "Stand by for a Ram" -- 40. "We Could Have Done Better" -- 41. Nattering Nabobs -- 42. The Legal Eagles -- 43. "Voices from Hell" -- 44. At Noon Tomorrow -- 45. Pancake -- 46. Pike's Peek -- 47. Uncle Walter -- 48. Teddy -- 49. "A Compelling Mystique" -- 50. "We're Going with Rather" -- 51. The Place to Be.

ISBN

• 9781586485764 (hardcover)
• 1586485768 (hardcover)

LCCN

• 2007045168
• 40015309036

OCLC

• ocn180852027
• 180852027
• SCSB-5399435

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries