This Just In, Bob Schieffer
This Just In, Bob Schieffer
1 Rating(s)
List: $24.99 | Sale: $17.50
Club: $12.49

This Just In
What I Couldn't Tell You on TV

Author: Bob Schieffer

Narrator: Bob Schieffer

Unabridged: 15 hr 15 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 03/11/2008

Synopsis

It has been a remarkable career for Bob Schieffer, the chief Washington correspondent for CBS News. He is trusted by countless Americans to cover the stories that matter. During his extraordinary career, he has won six Emmys. In 2002 the National Press Foundation hailed him as the Broadcaster of the Year. Now the highly respected veteran newsman shares the stories he's long kept under wraps in a book The Washington Post says "is everything a memoir should be-candid, funny, and loaded with great stories about famous people ." Schieffer goes beyond the news everyone is familiar with to share the compelling anecdotes only his colleagues were previously privy to. Says the author, "I want to tell you about the parts that didn't get on television or in the paper ." The result is an eye-opening glimpse behind the scenes of the news business. Whether the topic is the Nixon White House or Vietnam, the JFK assassination or the 1968 election, Schieffer has a story to tell that you simply have not heard before-but are almost certain to find fascinating. Schieffer reads his own work here, delivering a pitch-perfect narration that captures every nuance of his witty and wise insights.

About Bob Schieffer

Bob Schieffer, one of America's preeminent television journalists and former host of CBS's Face the Nation, is the author of This Just In: What I Couldn't Tell You on TV, Face the Nation: My Favorite Stories from the First 50 Years of the Award-Winning News Broadcast, and Bob Schieffer's America. He is a member of the Broadcasting Hall of Fame and in 2009 was named a Living Legend by the Library of Congress. He resides in Washington, D.C.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Ensiform on January 29, 2012

A memoir of the CBS newsman’s life, from his early days as a police beat reporter, through Nixon and Watergate, the bloodshed at home and at Vietnam in the ‘60s, up to 9/11. I had never heard of Schieffer before, even though he was originally a Texas newsman. In any case, this is a very pleasant aut......more

Goodreads review by Judy on January 21, 2009

I really like books that take a look at the inside world of journalism and network news. This was an easy to read account of Bob Shieffer's career beginning in radio in Fort Worth, Texas, moving to the print media, and finally to television news. The book brought home how random events can make the......more

Goodreads review by Gail on May 10, 2010

I really enjoyed reading this book - it was like taking a walk through the memory lane of my childhood, as it was tied to the events of the day. As certain songs remind me of moments in my life when i first heard them, so this book does the same with important political events of Bob Schieffer's car......more

Goodreads review by Ray on January 19, 2008

If you're a Network TV news junkie, or a member of the Bob Schieffer fan club, you'll thoroughly enjoy this book. If you stayed high during the 60's, and don't remember the Cuba Missle Crisis, the '68 Democratic convention in Chicago, or subsequent events like Watergate, Spiro Agnew, or Whitewater,......more

Goodreads review by Peter on April 12, 2012

Summary: Bob Schieffer's book is easy to read but does not reward even that little effort. This Just In is like a stack of losing lottery tickets: hoped-for rewards repeatedly fail to materialize. _____ As Walter Cronkite reports that President Kennedy has been shot, he takes off his glasses and looks......more

Add to Cart
Add to Wish List