The Times of My Life and My Life with The Times
New York, NY: Random House, 1999. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. x, 546 pages Illustrations. A Note About Quotes. Index. Inscribed by the author on the half title page. Inscription reads: For Joan & David. With great gratitude for great times and loving wishes for only good times! As Ever--Max April 1999. Frankel was born in Gera, Germany. He was an only child, and his family belonged to a Jewish minority in the area. Hitler came to power when Frankel was three years old. Frankel came to the United States in 1940. He attended Columbia College, and began part-time work for The New York Times in his sophomore year. He received his BA degree in 1952 and an MA in American government from Columbia in 1953. He joined The Times as a full-time reporter in 1952. He was sent overseas in November, 1956, to help cover stories arising from the Hungarian revolution. From 1957 to 1960 he was one of two Times correspondents in Moscow. He moved to Washington in 1961, where he became diplomatic correspondent in 1963 and White House correspondent in 1966. Frankel was chief Washington correspondent and head of the Washington bureau from 1968 to 1972, then Sunday editor of The Times until 1976, editor of the editorial page from 1977 to 1986 and executive editor from 1986 to 1994. He wrote a Times Magazine column on the media from 1995 until 2000. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1973 for coverage of Richard Nixon's trip to the People's Republic of China. Frankel is the author of the book High Noon in the Cold War – Kennedy, Khrushchev and the Cuban Missiles Crisis and, also, his memoir, The Times of My Life and My Life with the Times. More