Press Pass: the Journalist's Tale (signed) [signed] [first edition]

During his 40 years with Time-Life, Sidney James rose from Bureau Chief in Chicago and Los Angeles, to Assistant Managing Editor of Life, founding Managing Editor and later Publisher of Sports Illustrated, Vice-President of Time Inc., and Time Inc.'s representative in Washington, D.C. After retirement from Time Inc., he became Vice-Chairman of WETA, Washington, D.C.'s public television station, which broadcast the Watergate Hearings gavel-to-gavel, believed by many to have saved public television. With unusual insight and keen wit, James takes the reader from gripping tales of war heroes to stories of the flamboyant, the famous, and the merely pretentious among the cast of characters he encountered through four eventful decades. Press Pass is a fascinating account of a journalist's life in the uncommonly eventful twentieth century.