{"product_id":"chasing-history","title":"Chasing History","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCarl Bernstein, Washington Star.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith these words, the sixteen-year-old senior at Montgomery Blair High School set himself apart from the high school crowd and set himself on a track that would define his life. Carl Bernstein was far from the best student in his class—in fact, he was in danger of not graduating at all—but he had a talent for writing, a burning desire to know things that other people didn't, and a flair for being in the right place at the right time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThose qualities got him inside the newsroom at the Washington Star, the afternoon paper in the nation's capital, in the summer of 1960, a pivotal time for America, for Washington, D.C., and for a young man in a hurry on the cusp of adulthood.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eChasing History\u003c\/em\u003e opens up the world of the early 1960s as Bernstein experienced it, chasing after grisly crimes with the paper's police reporter, gathering colourful details at a John F. Kennedy campaign rally, running afoul of union rules, and confronting racial tensions as the civil rights movement gained strength.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWe learn alongside him as he comes to understand the life of a newspaperman, and we share his pride as he hunts down information, gets his first byline, and discovers that he has a talent for the job after all.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBy turns exhilarating, funny, tense, and poignant, \u003cem\u003eChasing History\u003c\/em\u003e shows us a country coming into its own maturity along with young Carl Bernstein, and when he strikes out on his own after five years at the Star, his hard-won knowledge and experience feels like ours as well.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIncludes photographs\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"The Distribution and Logistics Company (TDLC)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45719146463468,"sku":"9781250869890","price":32.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781250869890.jpg?v=1726118421","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/products\/chasing-history","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}