
An engrossing, poignant memoir by one of the nation's most respected journalists and media critics, including his youth as an Armenian immigrant and his secret acquisition of the Pentagon Papers as a Washington Post editor.

Bagdikian's book spans the human gamut, from the time of his birth when he was almost left for dead during a massacre of Armenians in Turkey to his becoming an editor of a leading American daily and a dean of the School of Journalism at Berkeley. As a child, Bagdikian lived in...