Frankel, Max
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Review A fascinating chronicle, Frankel's memoirs illuminate the second half of the twentieth century -- Chicago TribuneGripping reading -- The New Yo
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rk TimesMust reading for journalists and history buffs alike... -- The Dallas Morning News Product Description A quintessentially American story. The Times of My Life traces Frankel's riveting personal relationship with history, his harrowing escape from Nazi Germany... his life as an immigrant in New York... and his extraordinary half-century long career at the New York Times. A rich first person acount full of off-the-record encounters with Nikita Khrushchev, Henry Kissinger, John Kennedy, Richard Nixon, and many other history makers who shaped the course of the later part of the twentieth century From AudioFile Author Max Frankel reads his book with emotion andsensitivity. Just hearing the story of what his mother did to emigratewith her Jewish family from Germany during WWII makes the wholeexperience worthwhile. Another moving scene made poignant by theauthor narration is his experience of the naturalization ceremony,which juxtaposes his recitation of the oath and his own concurrentthoughts. Bits of this gifted writer's poetry add another dimensionbecause of the feeling put into its presentation. The quality of thisseamless abridgment tempts one to wish that all of this PulitzerPrize-winning journalist's autobiography had been included. J.A.H.2001 Audie Winner for Abridged Nonfiction. © AudioFile 2001,Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine
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