The Front Row

Résumé du livre

The Front Row, chronicling his 30 years as a newspaper reporter writing about national and international events dating back a century while fending off crippling mental illness, nagging alcohol abuse and financial ruin as the newspaper industry crumbles around him.•Hear Republican U.S. Sen. John McCain describe how he "slept like a baby" after losing to Barack Obama.•Lie on Cuban beaches during the Bay of Pigs invasion alongside revolutionaries waiting for American military support that never came.•Stare into the eyes of the Irish Republican Army's political leader.•Sit in the Oval Office discussing Social Security with the president.•Fly in a federal airplane watching a night Space Shuttle launch.•Take a racism IQ test that will change the way you view America's most cancerous issue. •Help create a presidential candidate, ride through the heartbreaking Hurricane Katrina ruins, and end your career just yards from where Donald Trump takes the oath of office. Shields riveting present-tense writing style puts you in the scene. Join the journey...