Book suggestion

Gotta love Saturday mornings. I’m sitting here with my coffee, BP’s in Maryland on business, LP is playing an extremely violent Xbox game called "The Godfather" (I hear m-fer and other choice words every so often—not from my angel LP, of course, but from the game) and Nesta is happily playing with her pink straw.

On tap today is laundry. I’m also making LP go around the yard and pick up sticks and other stuff that’s blown around for the last month. He wants to stay all night with Eric, so I told him that if he did everything I asked of him this morning and afternoon with nary a peep or whine, maybe just maybe I’d let him.

Anyway, I got another BN order yesterday. In the carton was a sample package of Starbucks coffee. What arrived: Bleeding Hearts, a China Bayles herbal mystery by Susan Wittig Albert, the complete third season of "Columbo" (one of the best ever television detective characters) and a small, incredibly tasty book titled Edward R. Murrow and the Birth of Broadcast Journalism by Bob Edwards. (I’m three quarters of the way through it already!) It’s part of the “Turning Points” book series published by John Wiley.
Watching the movie "Good Night and Good Luck" fueled my interest in Edward R. Murrow. What a wonderful journalist this man was. The book reprints some of his actual radio news reports from London during the Nazi bombings prior to American participation of WWII. He highlighted how the everyday Londoner was coping with the hailstorm of bombs. Very vivid first-person accounts. The news radio medium was very new back then and Murrow brought the war directly to the American public. After Pearl Harbor when we entered the war, Winston Churchill credited Murrow with educating the American public to Nazi horrors and with showing them they should be interested in what Europe was going through, even though (back then) Europe was so very very much removed from the life of the average American. His first hand account of his visit to the horror that was the concentration camp Buchenwald is extremely moving. $19.95 well spent for this slice of journalistic history.