Chasing History

A New York Times bestsellerIn this triumphant memoir Carl Bernstein the Pulitzer Prize-winning coauthor of All the President’s Men and pioneer of investigative journalism recalls his beginnings as an audacious teenage newspaper reporter in the nation’s capital?a winning tale of scrapes gumshoeing and American bedlam.. In 1960 Bernstein was just a sixteen-year-old at considerable risk of failing to graduate high school. Inquisitive self-taught?and yes truant?Bernstein landed a job as a copyboy at the Evening Star the afternoon paper in Washington. By nineteen he was a reporter there. . In Chasing History: A Kid in the Newsroom Bernstein recalls the origins of his storied journalistic career as he chronicles the Kennedy era the swelling civil rights movement and a slew of grisly crimes. He spins a buoyant frenetic account of educating himself in what Bob Woodward describes as “the genius of perpetual engagement.” . Funny and exhilarating poignant and frank Chasing History is an extraordinary memoir of life on the cusp of adulthood for a determined young man with a dogged commitment to the truth.