Contrarian by Peter Kaye is a fast-paced memoir about the author's 55 years as a newspaper reporter and editor, TV commentator and producer, campaign aide and more. Now 80 years old, Kaye grew up in the Great Depression and served in both World War II and Korea. Kaye's descriptions of major events are fascinating and illuminating. In pitch-perfect prose, he relates personal anecdotes about such giants such as Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan and John Glenn. Contrarian also places Kaye at the forefront of major events from the early days of the U. S. space program to President John F. Kennedy's assassination and then Watergate. Readers will savor this panoramic you-are-there view of history, told in the author's moving, amusing and engaging voice.
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Peter Kaye was a newspaper reporter and editor, television producer and commentator, and participant in 16 national political conventions. He won a National Emmy for his Watergate coverage. Retired, he lives in Del Mar, California.
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The ultimate "reporter's notebook",
By C. Lee (San Diego, California) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Contrarian (Paperback)
Brace yourself for a fast-reading, fun-filled, fact-packed chronicle of California and US history.
Like a Johnny Carson monologue, this memoir serves up a punchline on every page, with personal anecdotes that reduce giant figures (Richard Nixon, Jess Unruh and others) to a human scale. Often merciless but never mean-spirited, Kaye is like the perfect guest at a cocktail party of politicos and press corps personalities. All in all, a great read.
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good, fast history,
By A Reader (Washington State) - See all my reviews
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I have read a couple of memoirs by more 'famous' news people - who often end up sounding like the celebrities they are supposed to be reporting on. Kaye's book has a more authentic voice of the `working press'. (Probably an endangered species as one newspaper after another bites the dust.)
I share Kaye's vivid memories of a remarkable Southern California from a few decades ago, and he also helped me recapture some more recent national history that I really don't want to forget about. They say news reporters give us the first take on history. This book is a fun, fast moving account from a front row seat to just yesterday. I liked it.
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An autobiography of a journalist from Southern California doesn't drag you enthusiastically into its reading. But your reluctance turns quickly to cheers and amazement as Peter Kaye outlines a career that takes him from a small newspaper in Alhambra, CA to the highest levels of government as a campaign manager for some of the memorable politicians of recent times. He had a seeming rare skill of sliding back and forth from managing or taking part in political campaigns to reporting on them from his home base of the San Diego Union and Tribune before the merger of the two. It is clear in both endeavors that he was honest, truthful and a man of great integrity.He, like Ernest Hemingway, always worked from the middle of the street. The book will take hold of you and make you finish it within hours after picking it up. Peter Kaye's odyssey is definitely worth consuming in a whole.
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