Friendlyvision: Fred Friendly and the Rise and Fall of Television Journalism

Ralph Engelman; Foreword by Morley Safer

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Paper, 440 pages, 16 illus.
ISBN: 978-0-231-13691-4
$22.50 / £15.50

April, 2009
Cloth, 440 pages, 16 illus.
ISBN: 978-0-231-13690-7
$34.50 / £24.00

Foreword by Morley Safer

Acknowledgments

Prologue: Salesman

Introduction

1. Ferd

2. "My Rhodes Scholarship"

3. "Willing to Be Lucky"

4. See It Now

5. Friendly and Murrow

6. Encounter with McCarthyism

7. Aftermath

8. CBS Reports

9. Camelot

10. News President

11. At the Top of His Game

12. Vietnam

13. Resignation

14. Policy Maker

15. Professor

16. PBL

17. PBS

18. The Press and the Bar

19. Seminar

20. Last Years

21. Friendlyvision

Notes

Index

Related Subjects

• American History
• Journalism
• Television Studies

About the Author

Ralph Engelman chairs the Journalism Department at the Brooklyn Campus of Long Island University. A member of the jury of the George Polk Awards and the coordinator of the annual George Polk Awards Seminar, he is the author of Public Radio and Television in America: A Political History.

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