Five Best: Marvin Kalb on Memoirs of War Reporting

Not So Wild a Dream

By Eric Sevareid (1946)

1. Eric Sevareid wasn’t much given to casual conversation in the CBS bureau where we worked. But he loved words, loved writing and loved books. Only books, he felt, provided nourishment for the soul, not the 90-second television commentaries that paid the rent. This Sevareid classic takes the reader on a personal journey starting as a restless, 17-year-old North Dakotan, short of cash, sleeping in box cars, loving the open road. He would in time enter the University of Minnesota where,…

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