American Moments
- List Price: $13.00
- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: Touchstone Books
- Publish date: 12/01/1999
Description:
For more than thirty years, Charles Kuralt served, in the words of Time magazine, as "the laureate of the common man." Often compared to such chroniclers of the American landscape as Mark Twain, Will Rogers, and John Steinbeck, Kuralt had a knack for finding and describing the people, places, and things that define our country.
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This collection, based on ninety-second television spots he created for syndication shortly before his death in 1997, takes readers from an open-air market in Seattle to New York Harbor lined with tugboats. In charming vignettes, Kuralt introduces a host of American characters, including a Minnesotan who regularly camps out in record-low temperatures, the Keeper of the Flame on Liberty Island, and the man who handcrafts the President's shoes. Illustrated with stills from the broadcasts, and edited and organized by Kuralt's longtime friend and associate, Peter Freundlich, "this volume... like the serenity-inducing broadcaster himself, charms the bejesus out of browsers one and all" (Booklist).
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