Charles Kuralt (1934–1997)
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Charles Kuralt, September 10, 1934 - July 3, 1997 Charles Kuralt was born on September 10, 1934 in Wilmington, North Carolina. He was the son of a social worker and a teacher. Kuralt attended the University of North Carolina where he edited the student newspaper. He graduated in 1955. A year later, toon meer Kuralt won the Ernie Pyle Memorial Award for his human interest columns while working for the Charlotte, North Carolina News. Kuralt joined CBS in 1957 as a rewriter, moving quickly up the ranks to become an on-air correspondent, where he covered the 1960 Presidential campaign. He then moved to the position of head of CBS' Latin American Bureau. He eventually became a roving correspondent, doing four tours of Vietnam, covering the war. Kuralt quit hard news in 1967 and gathered a three man crew to do a three month trial run of "On the Road." After logging more than a million miles for CBS Americana, Kuralt became the anchor of "Sunday Morning," and hosted "An American Moment," and "I Remember." Through the course of his career, Charles Kuralt won three Peabody Awards and ten Emmys. He received the 1981 George Polk Memorial Award for national television reporting and was named Broadcaster of the Year in 1985 by the International Radio- Television Society. He has written "To the Top of the World," "Dateline America," "On the Road with Charles Kuralt," "Southerners," "North Carolina Is My Home" and "A Life on the Road." Charles Kuralt died on July 3, 1997 at the age of 63. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
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- Kuralt, Charles
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- 1934-09-10
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- New York, New York, USA
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- systemic lupus erythematosus
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- Wilmington, North Carolina, USA
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- University of North Carolina (BA | 1955)
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- television personality
journalist - Organisaties
- Charlotte News
CBS - Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- Ernie Pyle Memorial Award (1956)
George Foster Peabody Broadcasting Award ( [1969] ∙ 1976 ∙ [1980])
Emmy (11)
International Radio-TV Society's Broadcaster of the Year (1985)
Dupont-Columbia Award
George Polk Award (toon alle 8)
Charles Frankel Prize (1995)
National Association of Broadcasters Distinguished Service Award (1996)
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A Life on the Road door Charles Kuralt
Kuralt just has a way with story. There are many stories in this book. Just about half of this book is about Kuralt's life prior to his On The Road days and they are pretty interesting, South America correspondent, Anchorman, Vietnam, and radio. Just a great book.
A nice compendium of Kuralt's years on the road remember various subjects. What is amazing is that this book was written in 1985 and Kuralt had another 12 years of stories left to go. A wonderful selection of stories.
Enjoyable, short, and because it's written by a journalist attached to the expedition it has a certain 'third person' quality that can't be avoided. The most important thing to know before you read is that this covers the 1967 expedition. Not the 1968 expedition.
Read through my 2017 eyes, the vignette collection is occasionally sweet, rarely--though not never--provocative, and always repetitive. Besides a few gestures at poverty, which is never confronted, just overcome through good will--none of the stories incorporates conflict. It's a picture of the people on the back roads of the US that is too comfortable in nostalgia and its yearning for authortative, meaningful, cohesive, harmonious pastness: The Past and The Old Ways which must be glorified because goshdarnit they're the good ol' guys. The book works as it's designed, in spurts of short and vivid anecdotes. But if I weren't reading it to get some genre context for a comparable current project I'm editing, I'd have had no drive to keep reading to the end.… (meer)
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