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Merchant of words : the life of Robert St. John / Terry Fred Horowitz.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Lanham : Rowman and Littlefield, [2014]Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 414 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780810889071
  • 0810889072
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Merchant of words.DDC classification:
  • 070.4/333092 B 23
LOC classification:
  • PN4874.S26
Online resources:
Contents:
Prologue -- Growing pains in Illinois -- You're in the Navy now! -- "Tekla" : college bound and out to walk a beat -- First scoops : "Sunny" side up -- Exposing Capone and paying the price -- Archer aping Robert : Robert marrying Eda -- Who gets the credit? -- "How they gonna keep him down on the farm?" -- A.P. war correspondent : saving a Jewish family -- Escaping the Nazis : strafing and shrapnel -- From the land of silent people -- Broadcasting during the Blitz : it's always tomorrow : D-Day : "Golden voice of radio" -- Getting Truman to play the piano : first to announce end of war -- NBC wields the axe : Robert takes a mistress -- The silent people speak and so does Robert : "All American Award" -- Seduced by Israel : Shalom means Peace : Begin and the Irgun -- "Believe it or not" : Red Channels says Robert has communistic leanings : tongue of the prophets -- Apartheid in Africa : witch doctor's potion deadens ear -- This was my world : passport taken away : Archer commits suicide : "You've had your pound of flesh" -- In need of some friends : grand jury -- Ben-Gurion's "Goyisha friend" : Nasser's the boss -- Eichmann trial : JFK meets De Gaulle and Khrushchev -- Three books in one year -- Israel Life World Library : they came from everywhere : the man who played God -- "Gosh, a new career" : R & R -- Roll Jordan roll -- The World Book Encyclopedia : opposes Vietnam War : Encyclopedia of Radio and Television Broadcasting : Six Day War -- Is there any justice? : Jews, justice and Judaism -- Once around lightly : South America more or less -- Abba was I ere I saw Abba -- Yom Kippur War : freedom of information from the CIA, FBI, and State Department -- Dean of war correspondents : despite the witches : "Righteous Gentile" : one hundred years -- Postscript -- Epilogue.
Summary: During World War II, Robert St. John of NBC, broadcast from London opposite CBS's Edward R. Murrow. Afterward, St. John would become a noted writer and commentator on world affairs, as well as a prominent and vocal supporter of the state of Israel. In Merchant of Words: The Life of Robert St. John, Terry Fred Horowitz not only documents St. John's accomplishments and adventures but takes readers behind the scenes with St. John, who, for over three quarters of a century, served as a firsthand witness to history as it was being made in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-387) and index.

Prologue -- Growing pains in Illinois -- You're in the Navy now! -- "Tekla" : college bound and out to walk a beat -- First scoops : "Sunny" side up -- Exposing Capone and paying the price -- Archer aping Robert : Robert marrying Eda -- Who gets the credit? -- "How they gonna keep him down on the farm?" -- A.P. war correspondent : saving a Jewish family -- Escaping the Nazis : strafing and shrapnel -- From the land of silent people -- Broadcasting during the Blitz : it's always tomorrow : D-Day : "Golden voice of radio" -- Getting Truman to play the piano : first to announce end of war -- NBC wields the axe : Robert takes a mistress -- The silent people speak and so does Robert : "All American Award" -- Seduced by Israel : Shalom means Peace : Begin and the Irgun -- "Believe it or not" : Red Channels says Robert has communistic leanings : tongue of the prophets -- Apartheid in Africa : witch doctor's potion deadens ear -- This was my world : passport taken away : Archer commits suicide : "You've had your pound of flesh" -- In need of some friends : grand jury -- Ben-Gurion's "Goyisha friend" : Nasser's the boss -- Eichmann trial : JFK meets De Gaulle and Khrushchev -- Three books in one year -- Israel Life World Library : they came from everywhere : the man who played God -- "Gosh, a new career" : R & R -- Roll Jordan roll -- The World Book Encyclopedia : opposes Vietnam War : Encyclopedia of Radio and Television Broadcasting : Six Day War -- Is there any justice? : Jews, justice and Judaism -- Once around lightly : South America more or less -- Abba was I ere I saw Abba -- Yom Kippur War : freedom of information from the CIA, FBI, and State Department -- Dean of war correspondents : despite the witches : "Righteous Gentile" : one hundred years -- Postscript -- Epilogue.

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During World War II, Robert St. John of NBC, broadcast from London opposite CBS's Edward R. Murrow. Afterward, St. John would become a noted writer and commentator on world affairs, as well as a prominent and vocal supporter of the state of Israel. In Merchant of Words: The Life of Robert St. John, Terry Fred Horowitz not only documents St. John's accomplishments and adventures but takes readers behind the scenes with St. John, who, for over three quarters of a century, served as a firsthand witness to history as it was being made in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East.

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