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Record Nr.

UNINA9910823436303321

Autore

Heckler Cheryl <1959->

Titolo

An accidental journalist [[electronic resource] ] : the adventures of Edmund Stevens, 1934-1945 / / Cheryl Heckler

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Columbia, : University of Missouri Press, c2007

ISBN

0-8262-6613-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (305 p.)

Disciplina

070.92

B

Soggetti

Journalists - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-283) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- An Accidental Journalist: The Adventures of Edmund Stevens 1934-1945 -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: An Accidental Journalist -- Part 1 An American in Russia -- 1. The Early Years in Moscow -- 2. Kirov's Death and the Purge -- Part 2 Covering World War II -- 3. Russia and Germany against the Baltics, Norway, and Finland -- 4. Italo-Greek War -- 5. Ethiopia with Selassie and Wingate -- 6. Desert War of 1942 -- 7. With Churchill in Moscow -- 8. Wendell L. Willkie, Iraq, Iran, Victory in North Africa -- 9. A Moscow Correspondent Once Again -- Appendix. An Inevitable Journalist: Samples of Stevens's Reporting -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

"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.