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An accidental journalist : the adventures of Edmund Stevens, 1934-1945 / Cheryl Heckler.
- Title
- An accidental journalist : the adventures of Edmund Stevens, 1934-1945 / Cheryl Heckler.
- Author
- Heckler, Cheryl, 1959-
- Publication
- Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2007.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | PN4874.S6867 H43 2007 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xi, 290 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
- Summary
- "Stevens was the longest-serving American-born correspondent working from within the Soviet Union. In his career, which spanned half a century, he distinguished himself as a war reporter, analyst, and cultural interpreter. Heckler focuses on Stevens's work, especially his reporting for the Christian Science Monitor, and his life from 1934 to 1945"--Provided by publisher.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Biographies
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-283) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Part one : an American in Russia -- The early years in Moscow -- Kirov's death and the purge -- Part two : covering World War II -- Russia and Germany against the Baltics, Norway, and Finland -- Italo-Greek War -- Ethiopia with Selassie and Wingate -- Deser War of 1942 -- With Churchill in Moscow -- Wendell L. Willkie, Iraq, Iran, Victory in North Africa -- A Moscow correspondent once again -- Appendix : an inevitable journalist : samples of Steven's reporting.
- ISBN
- 9780826217707 (alk. paper)
- 0826217702 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2007028963
- OCLC
- 155756907
- SCSB-12826427
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library