Book description
The host of The Bob Edwards Show and Bob Edwards Weekend on Sirius XM
Radio, Bob Edwards became the first radio personality with a large
national audience to take his chances in the new field of satellite
radio. The programs' mix of long-form interviews and news documentaries
has won many prestigious awards. For thirty years, Louisville native
Edwards was the voice of National Public Radio's daily newsmagazine
programs, co-hosting All Things Considered before launching Morning
Edition in 1979. These programs built NPR's national audience while also
bringing Edwards to national prominence. In 2004, however, NPR announced
that it would be finding a replacement for Edwards, inciting protests
from tens of thousands of his fans and controversy among his listeners
and fellow broadcasters. Today, Edwards continues to inform the American
public with a voice known for its sincerity, intelligence, and wit. In A
Voice in the Box: My Life in Radio, Edwards recounts his career as one
of the most important figures in modern broadcasting. He describes his
road to success on the radio waves, from his early days knocking on
station doors during college and working for American Forces Korea
Network to his work at NPR and induction into the National Radio Hall of
Fame in 2004. Edwards tells the story of his exit from NPR and the
launch of his new radio ventures on the XM Satellite Radio network.
Throughout the book, his sharp observations about the people he
interviewed and covered and the colleagues with whom he worked offer a
window on forty years of American news and on the evolution of public
journalism. A Voice in the Box is an insider's account of the world of
American media and a fascinating, personal narrative from one of the
most iconic personalities in radio history. Bob Edwards is the author
of Edward R. Murrow and the Birth of Broadcast Journalism and Fridays
with Red: A Radio Friendship. Edwards has been awarded the Alfred I.
duPont-Columbia Award for radio journalism, a George Foster Peabody
Award for excellence in broadcasting, and the Edward R. Murrow Award for
outstanding contributions to public radio. He lives in Arlington,
Virginia.
