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Whether the subject is a hilarious PBS NewsHour near-disaster or a personal crisis, Jim Lehrers life makes terrific copy. This memoir will have readers thinking, chortling, even getting misty-eyed, long after the final page has been turned.
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When three bizarre deaths occur aboard the "Super Chief" train out of 1956 Chicago, a dramatic investigation ensues involving a mysterious stowaway, a down-and-out director, Harry Truman and other high-profile passengers. (Mystery & detective).
A young historian's peaceful and orderly life is undermined by personal and professional crises when he receives a letter dating back to the Revolutionary War that reveals a scandal that could alter American history.
In the successful tradition of Russell Baker's Growing Up, Lehrer's warm autobiography features marvelous stories, memorable characters, and pointed opinions about all kinds of things. Lehrer has co-anchored the award-winning McNeil/Lehrer NewsHour for almost 17 years. photos.
In the tradition of Murder on the Orient Express, Jim Lehrer brings together a cast of characters as fascinating as the historic train that will carry them from Chicago to Los Angeles. In its heyday, the Santa Fe railroad's famous Super Chief was so replete with wealth and celebrity that it became known as “The Train of the Stars.” And so we find it in April of 1956, embarking from the Windy City for its trip across the Plains to the West Coast. Climbing aboard is an amazing spectrum of passengers. There's Darwin Rinehart, a once great Hollywood producer whose most recent movie was a total flop and who now faces bankruptcy and shame. In a dark recess of a train car hides a mysterious, di...
An account of the trials and tribulations, optimism and pride experienced and sustained by the author's family in their crisis-ridden, one-year venture operating an independent bus company in 1940s Kansas
Now in paperback comes the bestseller by the renowned anchorman and novelist about the difficult World War II experiences of John Quincy Watson, an American bomber pilot.
It is the night of the presidential debate. The election is eight days away. Republican nominees James Meredith, a fundamentalist Christian whose ambitions border on white supremacy, is pitted against four reporters who have just discovered damaging information that could ruin his career. What unfolds during The Last Debate will change the course of electoral politics and the news business forever…. As "the ultimate insider-outsider" (Washington Post), and as a moderator of presidential debates past and present, journalist and PBS news anchor Jim Lehrer knows the world he writes about only too well. His novel—a satirical and absorbing story of the behind-the-scenes world of news journalism—also exposes the duplicitous posing and posturing of made-for-TV political events. And with the 2000 elections looming ahead, the targets of his satire—religious fundamentalists, self-important journalists, feral network programming heads—could not be more timely.