Book description
For fifteen years, Ron Nessen enjoyed an extraordinary career covering
the major national events of the 1960s and '70s for NBC News, and later
serving as White House press secretary to President Gerald R. Ford.
Making the News, Taking the News remembers the events and personalities
that dominated national politics during Nessen's career, bringing a
hard-won perspective to those tumultuous times. Through an interweaving
of countless incidents and personal anecdotes, Nessen builds a story
that captures the true grit of closed-door politics. Off-the-record
briefings and strategy sessions, as well as descriptions of experiences
with Vietnam troops in the field, provide a vivid illustration of the
life of an on-the-road reporter. At the heart of the book is Nessen's
White House years, as the veteran reporter gives a valuable eyewitness
account of events both behind the scenes and in front of the cameras
that shaped and altered America during two critical decades. "In
this strongly written, evocative and at times very personal memoir Ron
Nessen takes us on an intensely remembered journey through a unique
period of American history, when it seemed the center might not
hold..."--John R. Coyne Jr., Washington Times RON NESSEN is the
journalist-in-residence at the Brookings Institution. He lives in
Bethesda, Maryland.
