Norman Corwin's One World Flight: The Lost Journal of Radio's Greatest Writer - Hardcover

Bloomsbury

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0826434118 ISBN 13: 9780826434111

Publisher: Continuum, 2009

Synopsis

In 1946, legendary broadcaster Norman Corwin traveled to 17 countries to document the postwar world for the radio series, One World Flight. Here, recently discovered and now published for the first time, is his personal journal of that historic trip.

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Review:

"How wonderful this manuscript was found! I was captivated by every word of Norman Corwin's "One World Flight" broadcasts. Norman is my dearest friend and greatest teacher, and I love him dearly. I wrote the Martian Chronicles for him. --Ray Bradbury"

I found Corwin s language to be clear, concise and almost poetic. In addition to all of the above, Norman Corwin s One World Flight also gives the OTR enthusiast a chance to learn about many of those individuals who helped make Radio great. You ll meet CBS executives William S. Paley and Davidson Taylor. You ll travel with CBS Far East correspondent Bill Costello and Middle East correspondent George Polk. You ll be introduced to dozens of radiomen in large and small stations around the world who helped Corwin and Bland in their travels. You ll also understand the power of radio and of Norman Corwin s own renown around the world. --Radio Recall, October 2010

About the Author:

Michael C. Keith is a member of the Communications Department at Boston College. He is the author of over 20 books on the electronic media, including Talking Radio, Voices in the Purple Haze, Signals in the Air, Sounds in the Dark, the classic textbook The Radio Station, and a critically acclaimed memoir The Next Better Place. Keith is the recipient of several awards, including the Stanton Fellow Award. Mary Ann Watson is a professor of Electronic Media & Film Studies at Eastern Michigan University. She earned her Ph.D. in Communications at The University of Michigan in 1983. Watson is the author of The Expanding Vista: American Television in the Kennedy Years, published by Oxford University Press in 1990, which has become a widely referenced work in the literature of media history. She is also the author of Defining Visions: Television and the American Experience in the 20th Century, 2nd edition, published by Wiley-Blackwell, 2008.

About this edition

• Publisher: Continuum
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0826434118
• ISBN 13: 9780826434111
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 232
• Editor: Michael C. Keith, Mary Ann Watson