Tangled Bylines: A Father and Son Cover the Twentieth Century

This memoir of father and son journalistsboth named Clyde Farnsworthdraws on the unfinished autobiography of the authors father. Largely biographical, this book can be read as a panoramic history of American newspaper journalism in the twentieth-century, covering Prohibition gangs, prison fires, and botched executions in the 1920s and 1930s, to global war, the shaping of postwar Europe and Asia, and Americas emergence from the Cold War. Tangled Bylines includes off-beat encounters with Amelia Earhart, Douglas MacArthur, Charles de Gaulle, Winston Churchill, and Simon Wiesenthal. See more