Title

The times of my life and my life with the Times

Description

In this memoir, The New York Times's Max Frankel tells his life story the way he lived it - in tandem with the big news stories of our time. "Max Frankel started to write for The New York Times as a student at Columbia in 1949, and during the next half century he held just about every important position on the paper - foreign correspondent, Washington bureau chief, editorials editor, and executive editor." "When The Times of My Life begins, Max Frankel is a boy in Nazi Germany; we experience the terror of his wartime escape with his heroic mother, their immigrant lives in New York, and a teacher's inspired decision that he could belatedly learn to read English if he learned to write it. And so Max Frankel found his career. His book, like his life, moves through Hitler's Berlin, Khrushchev's Moscow, Castro's Havana, and the Washington of Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon. It reevaluates the Cold War and interweaves Frankel's personal and professional lives with the era's greatest stories, from Sputnik to the Pentagon Papers, from the building of the Berlin Wall to its collapse, all the while tracking the tensions of managing the world's greatest newspaper."--BOOK JACKET.

Identifier

785100

679448241

Creator

Frankel, Max

Format

1st ed.

Source

Brian Lamb Booknotes Collection

Gift of Brian Lamb, 2011.

Catalog record

Language

eng

Date

1999

Program air date: April 18, 1999

Publisher

Random House

George Mason University. Libraries. Special Collections & Archives

Text

Transcription of Annotations
Notes on front endpapers: Cuomo/D'Amato 488; Reader's survey-436. Thur MAR 18 2pm. Tobi died MAR 16, 1987. James Michner--bitter--"The Bridge at Andau" p 139. United World Federalists--Hiss/Chambers went to trial. JFK would have gone into Vietnam p 279. Most important thing I have learned about journalism p 282. Punch's wife Carol--her involvement in Greenfield/Wcker decision p 303. Nixon--a Queeg in the Oval Office. Your relationship with Kissingers--Anderson story p 318. Joseph McCarthy, Ike-Columbia Pres., Larry Grossman, Dick Wald, David Wise, Roone Arledge. If Pres. Clinton asked for delay today on a story like Cuban missile crises would you do it? JFK's words "often devious" p 248. Wanted to be like Walter Lippmann-261. Why couldn't Jew be top editor-Frankel's theory on Vietnam p 265. Reporter's note book--twit the President p 350. Lamb checks some sections on the Contents pages. Notes/Underlinings: Early life, background, escape from Germany/Poland, life in NYC, education. Cord Meyer, Jr. Alger Hiss, Whittaker Chambers. Lionel Trilling, Jacques Barzun, Dumas Malone, etc. Education, journalism, work at NYT. Army. Roy Cohen, book purges in Europe. Return to NYT. Wed Tobi Brow, off to Vienna. James Michener--Frankel resented him. Russia, Daniel Schorr, Paul Niven. Cuba, Pierre Salinger. Scotty Reston, Felix Frankfurter. "Off the record," "Deep background," "Henry Cabot Lodge resigns in 30 days," "background," "high official," "Ford and Poland," "JFK promiscuity, lied," "Vietnam, Toby's reaction," "Homer Bigart," "Mal Browne," "Neil Sheehan," LBJ, "Chester Cooper," "media disguise cheerleading," "LBJ no private talks," "White House 1966," "LBJ 1st private interview," Walt Rostow, Mac Bundy, John Roche, George Christian, Abe Fortas, Abe Harmon, James Greenfield, Arthur Gelb. "Grew to admire Johnson," Nixon, "woman on Court," "Kissinger," Jack Anderson, "Sunday editor," "readers' survey, focus groups," later years at the NYT.

Subject

"Frankel, Max, 1930-"

"New York times."

"Journalists--United States--20th century--Biography."

"Jews, German--United States--Biography."

"Jews--Germany--History--1933-1945."

Relation

Original Booknotes interview

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