A Long Row of Candles: Memoirs & Diaries, 1934-1954

by Cyrus Leo Sulzberger II and C. L Sulzberger

Autobiography This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: B00005WAE3
• ISBN13: 9781122091855
• Release Date: January 1969
• Publisher: Macmillan
• Weight: 3.87 lbs.

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Journalistic memoirs of C. L. Sulzberger. The author writes of events that happened between 1934-1954, things that happened all over the world. During the years covered here he organized and ran The New York Times Foreign Service, establishing uninterrupted news coverage of every single major area. He witnessed WWII, and the division of power between the U.S. and U.S.S.R., the East-West division of Germany, the growing involvement of America in Indochina, plus dozens of other globally important happenings. He was on intimate terms with kings, statesmen, diplomats, generals, and presidents. Many rarely interviewed people...Churchill, de Gaulle, Tito, Franco, Eisenhower, and scores of others...talked with him frankly and at length on repeated occasions. He was privy to many inside stories which he now tells

A long row of candles

this is one of the most engrossing books I have read in a long time. Cy takes us on a whirlwind tour of the Balkins before and during WWII. Cy graduated from Harvard in 1934 and went to Europe. He picked up odd writing jobs but in 1939 he went into the Balkins to be the only American covering that part of the world. He was privy to information that was not released to the rest of the works and was finally coerced into being the foreign corrospondent for the Times. His insight into the people and the times are so candid that he frequently wound up in more trouble than a prisoner of war. He bought a terrier, Felix, in 1939 and detailed its exploits until its death in 1942. His future wife wrote from Athens Greece during the Nazi occupation, "it is a good think you did not leave Felix with us. He would have starved to death." More likely he would have been eaten.Cy tells of his interviews with Tito, Churchill and his futile efforts to interview Stalin. This is a must read book.