What follows - the story of a newspaperman's career - bears out this first impression. This is doubly charming as a device for introducing a life, because of the picture it presents of a young man emerging from childhood and the author's willingness to offer it as the first glimpse the reader gets of him. "There have been times when he has drunk too much alcohol, but this does not satisfy him." "He has done several things to overcome his restlessness," the interviewing psychologist adds. Here the reader gets a detailed glimpse of a "mixed up" boy with "a rather immature, emotional and romantic outlook" on the career of foreign correspondent, which he wants to pursue. $27.50.īen Bradlee begins his engaging autobiography, "A Good Life: Newspapering and Other Adventures," by citing a profile of him that was done as part of a study of "normal" young men at Harvard in 1940. A GOOD LIFE Newspapering and Other Adventures By Ben Bradlee Illustrated.
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