The Times of My Life: And My Life With the Times - Softcover

Frankel, Max

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0385334982 ISBN 13: 9780385334983

Publisher: Delta, 2000

Synopsis

In an entertaining memoir that spans some of the major events of the twentieth century, the Pulitzer Prizewinning journalist chronicles his fortyfive year career at The New York Times, from his youth in Nazi Germany through World War II to the Cold War, the Space Race, and beyond. Reprint.

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About the Author

Max Frankel was born in 1930 in Gera, Germany. Raised in New York City, Frankel received his B.A. and M.A. from Columbia University. He has written for The New York Times for fifty years and received the Pulitzer Prize for international coverage in 1973. He served as executive editor of The Times from 1986 to 1994. This is his first book. He lives in New York City.

From the Inside Flap

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 America's 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 Frankel's 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-decade-long career at The Times. In a rich first-person account that moves from Hitler's Berlin to Cold War Moscow, from Castro's Havana to the newsroom of America's most influential newspaper, this powerful, compelling work interweaves Frankel's personal and professional lives with the era's greatest stories, from Sputnik to the Pe

Edition details

• Publisher: Delta
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0385334982
• ISBN 13: 9780385334983
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 546