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For many Americans, Peter Jennings was the voice and face that gave shape and meaning to every day’s news. In this oral biography, readers witness Jennings’ extraordinary rise to the top of his profession, but they get to know him as a person, too. It brings together memories contributed by Peter’s friends, family, competitors, colleagues, and interview subjects. They reveal facets of a man many of us felt we knew well—but only because he greeted us every weekday evening from our television sets.
Peter Jennings was a celebrity, of course, but in these pages he is remembered as a loyal friend and a devoted family man. Throughout his life, Peter Jennings was driven by a passion to seek the truth and convey that truth accurately, simply, cleanly, and elegantly to his American audience. He was our voice.
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For years Peter Jennings was the voice Americans tuned to in their evenings for a sense of the world around them. Here is an account of a life well lived, with purpose, drive, and elegance. For many Americans, TV news anchorman Peter Jennings was the voice and face that gave shape and meaning to every day's news. In this biography, readers witness Jennings' extraordinary rise to the top of his profession, along with getting to know him as a person. This is an oral biography, a collection of memories contributed by Peter's friends, family, competitors, colleagues, and interview subjects. Their stories are full of surprises. Jennings was a high school dropout who spent the rest of his life in pursuit of knowledge.Peter Jennings was a celebrity, a dashingly handsome and elegant man, famous for his ability to charm women and world leaders alike, but in these pages he is remembered as a loyal friend and a devoted family man who loved nothing more than to canoe a quiet lake in Canada with his kids. Not that he was the relaxing sort. Peter Jennings was a task-master who ripped other reporters' pieces to shreds, forcing them to re-write from the ground up.
He was a perfectionist, too, who drove his fellow correspondents crazy with his ad-libbed questions on the air. It was all about standards. Throughout his life, Peter Jennings was driven by a passion to seek the truth and convey that truth accurately, simply, cleanly, and elegantly to his audience.About the Author
Kate Darnton is a contributing editor to PublicAffairs, living in Boston, Massachusetts. Kayce Freed Jennings is executive vice president and co-founder of The Documentary Group, an independent production company. She was married to Peter Jennings from 1997 until his death in 2005. Lynn Sherr has been an award-winning correspondent with ABC News since 1977.
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- PublisherPublicAffairs
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 1586486446
- ISBN 13 9781586486440
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages350
- EditorDarnton Kate
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