"IMMEDIATELY ENGROSSING . . . [A] SPLENDID MEMOIR."
—The Wall Street Journal
"Run, don't walk to the nearest bookstore and treat yourself to the most heartwarming, nostalgia-producing book you will have read in many a year."
—Ann Landers
"Entertaining . . . The story of a modest man who succeeded extravagantly by remaining mostly himself. . . . His memoir is a short course on the flow of events in the second half of this century—events the world knows more about because of Walter Cronkite's work."
—The New York Times Book Review
A MAIN SELECTION OF THE BOOK-OF THE MONTH CLUB