The Murrow Boys: Pioneers on the Front Lines of Broadcast Journalism

Publishers Weekly described The Murrow Boys as a lively, colloquial history of broadcast journalism that is so exciting one's impulse is to read it in a single sitting. It tells the swashbuckling tale of Edward R. Murrow and his legendary band of CBS radio journalists - Charles Collingwood, Howard K. Smith, William Shirer, Eric Sevareid, and others - as they paint pictures in the air from the World War II front. Brimming with personalities and anecdotal detail, it also serves up a sharp-eyed account of where the craft went wrong after the war, when vanity and commercialism increasingly intruded. This is history at its best, said Ted Anthony of AP News.