Chasing History

A New York Times. bestseller. In 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.