Double Vision

Taking Us from the Author's Narrow Escape as an Infant from a Turkish Massacre, to His Youth as an Armenian Immigrant in America, to His Secret Acquisition of the Pentagon Papers as a Washington Post Editor in 1971, to His Career as One of the Nation's Most Respected Journalists and Media Critics, This Engrossing, Witty, Poignant Memoir Offers Rich Insights into American Journalism and the American Immigrant Experience. Book jacket.

Ben H. Bagdikian has been a Washington bureau chief and foreign correspondent for the Providence Journal, an assistant managing editor of the Washington Post, and a dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley.

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Preface	p. xiii
A Not-So-Secret Mission	p. 1
And 5,400 Pages of Not-So-Secret "Secrets"	p. 7
The Good Old Days Weren't	p. 34
Seeing Double	p. 51
I Am "Dead"--Almost	p. 67
The Exodus	p. 75
My Mother	p. 95
My Father behind His Divinity Degree	p. 108
Uncle Fred	p. 128
My Life as a Failure	p. 144
"Your Kind," "Their Kind," and World War II	p. 161
The News as Seen from Wall Street	p. 180
I Discover I Have a Union Problem	p. 193
Wars and Society--Bottom Up or Top Down?	p. 209
Cardiac Therapy for Me (And the News?)	p. 226
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