Alan Weisman has come as close as anyone to unraveling one of the big mysteries of the television age who is the real Dan Rather Weisman has devoted much time energy and talent to that question and this book is a fascinating read--Robert Pierpoint former CBS News correspondentThere is no career in modern television journalism that is more fascinating complicated controversial or accomplished than that of Dan Rather and there is no one who has focused the attention of colleagues TV writers competitors and of course critics to a similar degree over the last twenty-five years Alan Weismans lively account of this remarkable life explains why the quest to understand Rather has remained so vital and important--Verne Gay television critic NewsdayThis book is an attempt to take a few steps back from Memogate and examine the whole picture -- the scope and breadth of Dan Rathers life career and times If he mattered enough to be watched by untold millions of people for fifty years on television then his story matters enough to be told as fully as possible--From Lone Star The Extraordinary Life and Times of Dan Rather.
