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A Time Of Change: A Reporter's Tale Of Our Time

Harrison E. Salisbury
Reviewed by John C. Campbell
Summer 1988
A Time Of Change: A Reporter's Tale Of Our Time
Harrison E. Salisbury
Bessie/Harper & Row
1988
352 pp.
$19.95
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This second volume of the author's personal memoirs covers the years 1954 to the present. There is marvelous, zestful material on China, Russia, Vietnam, and the subject of being a reporter for The New York Times. Mr. Salisbury admires Lincoln Steffens and he works in the tradition of that great reporter: honest, witty, irreverent, bold, industrious. Wonderful reading.

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