Free Men of America

Book Description

Chicago: Ziff-Davis. (1943). Subtitled "The Role of the New World in the Coming Era." Inscribed by Padilla to noted journalist Eric Sevareid: "To my dear/ friend Eric/ Sevareide [sic] in/ token of deep/ and affectionate/ regard," and dated May, 1943. Padilla was the Mexican Secretary of Foreign Affairs; Sevareid was one of the newsmen recruited by legendary broadcaster Edward R. Murrow for CBS News. He was the last American to report from Paris before it fell in World War II, and the first to report the French surrender to the Germans. He later went on to a long and distinguished career in television journalism as a commentator on Walter Cronkite's CBS news show, and was one of the group known as "Murrow's Boys" who gave CBS its early and long-lasting standing as the preeminent broadcast news organization in the U.S. Very good in a very good dust jacket with moderate rubbing and edge wear. . First Edition. hardcover.

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