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The time of my life and my life with The Times

by Max Frankel

This memoir documents a journalism career at The New York Times from 1949 through the Cold War era. It covers major stories like the Pentagon Papers alongside the personal history of escaping Nazi Germany and managing a leading international newspaper.

Accession 18868 ISBN 0679448241 Publisher Random House
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