A Good Life: Newspapering and Other Adventures by Ben Bradlee
A Good Life: Newspapering and Other Adventures by Ben Bradlee is a 514-page hardcover published by Simon & Schuster. Copyright 1995. Book Summary "On August 8, 1942, I graduated from Harvard by the skin of my teeth at 10:00 A.M. At noon, I was commissioned an ensign in the U.S> Naval Reserve with orders to join a new destroyer being built in Kearny, New Jersey. And at 4:00 P.M., I married Jean Saltonstall, the first and only girl I had been with. I was not yet twenty-one. I had never been west of the Berkshires or south of Washington, D.C., and I was on my way to some place called the South Pacific, which was not yet a musical. The education of Benjamin C. Bradlees was finally under way." This is the witty, candid story of a daring young man who made his own way to the heights of America journalism and public life, of the great adventure that took him at only twenty years old straight from Harvard to almost four years in the shooting was in the South Pacific, and back, from a maverick New Hampshire weekly to an apprenticeship for Newsweek to postwar Paris, then to the Washington Bureau chief's desk, and finally to the apex of his career at The Washington Post. ISBN: 0-684-80894-3