Looking for My Country: Finding Myself in America - Hardcover

MacNeil, Robert

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 038550781X ISBN 13: 9780385507813

Publisher: Nan a Talese, 2003

Synopsis

Growing up in Halifax, Nova Scotia, during World War II, MacNeil felt as though nothing of significance ever happened in Canada; Canada seemed too small, too parochial for his ambitions. Reared on his mother's obsession with all things English, when he moved to Britain in his mid-twenties he expected to find himself adopted by a new country that was at once familiar and foreign. But his career led him down a different path. Receiving a call from NBC to fill in as their London correspondent, he began reporting for an American audience. By the early sixties, NBC convinced him to come to the United States, where he continued his broadcasts and eventually founded the highly acclaimed MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour at PBS.

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About the Author

Robert MacNeil was, until his retirement in October 1995, the co-anchor of PBS’s <i>MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour</i>. A lifelong love of language has inspired him to write, and his previous books include two volumes of memoirs and three novels, including his latest, <b>Breaking News</b>, and the Canadian bestsellers <b>Burden of Desire</b> and <b>The Voyage</b>. Born in Montreal, MacNeil grew up in Nova Scotia, the setting for his bestselling memoir <b>Wordstruck</b>. He now divides his time between Halifax and his home in New York City.

From the Inside Flap

rnalist and author of the international bestseller <b>Wordstruck</b>, Robert MacNeil reflects on a life lived between nations, and why he finally decided to call himself an American.<br><br>Growing up in Halifax during World War II, it seemed to Robert MacNeil that nothing of significance ever happened in Canada. From his mother’s obsession with all things English (even the marmalade) to his own love for American music like <i>Rhapsody in Blue</i>, Canada seemed too small, too parochial for his ambitions. Moving to Britain in his mid-twenties, MacNeil was suddenly exposed to a country with thousands of years of history, extraordinary theatre and culture. But it was in America that MacNeil finally found his country -- America, a land of contrasts and possibilities.<br><br>A journalist for NBC and later for PBS on the <i>MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour</i>, MacNeil was a witness to many of the current events that shaped the last century: the erection of the Berlin Wall, Kenne

Edition details

• Publisher: Nan a Talese
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 038550781X
• ISBN 13: 9780385507813
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 203