Chosen by broadcaster Edward R. Murrow to become one of what came to be known as the Murrow Boys, Kalb captures the excitement of being present at the creation of a whole new way of bringing news immediately to the public. Cold War tensions were high between Eisenhower’s America and Khrushchev’s Soviet Union and Kalb was at the center, occupying a unique spot as a student of Russia tasked with explaining Moscow to Washington and the American public.
On April 15, Foreign Policy at Brookings hosted a fireside chat between Kalb and respected, long-time journalist and Senior Fellow E.J. Dionne for a discussion about Kalb’s book, journalism’s history, and life behind the Iron Curtain.
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