A Journey For Our Times:A Memoir by Harrison E Salisbury

A Journey For Our Times:A Memoir by Harrison E. Salisbury.Vintage 1983 Harper & Row 2ndPrinting edition hardcover w/dj in like new condition(shelf wear, tear to dj).Book dimensions are 9.1×6×1.8 inches,1.8lbs.,546 pages.Harrison Evans Salisbury (1908-1993) was an American journalist. After WWII he was NYTimes correspondent in Moscow but also covered communist China,Southeast Asia, and the turbulent zones in the U.S.He was assigned to report on some of the most important people and world events of his time.Harrison was known for his controversial and skeptical viewpoints on world topics. He battled Soviet censorship and initiated new debates on the origins of the Cold War.He reported on the 1960's civil rights movement and the JFK assassination.He openly opposed the Vietnam War.He covered Capone's Chicago,Huey Long's Louisiana,the 60's riots and more.He met Solzhenitsyn,Khrushchev,JFK,Nixon,Adlai Stevenson amongst others.He wrote 29 books,this one both memoir and historical resource.