Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1975. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. xiii. [1], 577, [1] pages. Illustrations. Sources. Index. Inscribed on half-title by Bernard Kalb. Inscription reads: Jackie and David Levine, With my best wishes. Bernard Kalb. DJ worn, torn, soiled and chipped. Book club indentation mark at lover back cover. Lower front corner rubbed through cloth. Marvin Leonard Kalb (born June 9, 1930) is an American journalist. Kalb was the founding director of the Harvard University Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy and Edward R. Murrow Professor of Press and Public Policy (1987 to 1999). He was a James Clark Welling Fellow at George Washington University and a member of the Atlantic Community Advisory Board. He wad a guest scholar in Foreign Policy at the Brookings Institution. Bernard Kalb (born February 4, 1922) is an American journalist, moderator, media critic, lecturer, and author. He covered international affairs for more than three decades at CBS News, NBC News and The New York Times. Nearly half that time he was based abroad in Indonesia, Hong Kong, Paris and Saigon. Near the end of his tenure at the Times, Kalb received a fellowship from the Council on Foreign Relations - awarded annually to a foreign correspondent - and took a leave from the newspaper for a year. He also won an Overseas Press Club Award for a 1968 documentary on the Vietcong. He and his younger brother, journalist Marvin Kalb, traveled extensively with Henry Kissinger on diplomatic missions and later wrote a biography together entitled Kissinger. The brothers also co-authored The Last Ambassador, a novel about the collapse of Saigon in 1975. More