This is the witty, candid story of a daring young man who made his own way to the heights of America journalism and public life, of the great adventure that took him at only twenty years old straight from Harvard to almost four years in the shooting was in the South Pacific, and back, from a maverick New Hampshire weekly to an apprenticeship for Newsweek to postwar Paris, then to the Washington Bureau chief's desk, and finally to the apex of his career at The Washington Post. I had never been west of the Berkshires or south of Washington, D.C., and I was on my way to some place called the South Pacific, which was not yet a musical. And at 4:00 P.M., I married Jean Saltonstall, the first and only girl I had been with. Having gotten married just before going to Vietnam, I know how he felt getting married just before going into WWII. He was a lousy Harvard student and he suffered many of the problems the rest of us have early on.
At noon, I was commissioned an ensign in the U.S> Naval Reserve with orders to join a new destroyer being built in Kearny, New Jersey. He is the author of two books: Conversations with Kennedy (1984), and a memoir, A Good Life: Newspapering and Other Adventures (1995). Ben Bradlee is bigger than life, but it was good to see from where he came. "On August 8, 1942, I graduated from Harvard by the skin of my teeth at 10:00 A.M. A Good Life The classic New York Times bestselling memoir by legendary Executive Editor of The Washington Post Ben Bradlee-with a new foreword by Bob. A Good Life: Newspapering and Other Adventures by Ben Bradlee is a 514-page hardcover published by Simon & Schuster.
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