"This book has an almost Shakespearian quality: larger-than-life characters, broken friendships, pride and regret, all set against a background of war and depredation. It is also an in memoriam to an era of brilliant reporting, which to this day remains elegant, accurate, and admirable. May it ever be so." Morley Safer from the foreward "This engaging account of Shirer's life and groundbreaking accomplishments during tumultuous times raises such fundamental journalistic issues as objectivity, corporate sponsorship, censorship, political correctness, wartime embedded reporting, and contem "A Complex Fate delves into the reasons for Shirer's excellence as a journalist, and like a Greek tragedy, explores why those very same traits - his intelligence, ego, autodidactic streak, uncompromising search for the truth, and iron will - threatened to "Cuth¬bertson recounts the improvised thrill of the first-ever roundup from correspondents dotted all across Europe beaming the voices back to the United States, a model for network television broadcasts to this day but an outright marvel at the time." Th "Ken Cuthbertson's 'A Complex Fate' is a thought-provoking, richly detailed biography of Shirer. Written with the full cooperation of Shirer's family, and generously illustrated with photographs, it introduces a new generation of readers to a supremely t model for network television broadcasts to this day but an outright marvel at the time." Th "Ken Cuthbertson's 'A Complex Fate' is a thought-provoking, richly detailed biography of Shirer. Written with the full cooperation of Shirer's family, and generously illustrated with photographs, it introduces a new generation of readers to a supremely t model for network television broadcasts to this day but an outright marvel at the time.

" Th "Ken Cuthbertson's 'A Complex Fate' is a thought-provoking, richly detailed biography of Shirer. Written with the full cooperation of Shirer's family, and generously illustrated with photographs, it introduces a new generation of readers to a supremely t model for network television broadcasts to this day but an outright marvel at the time." Th "Ken Cuthbertson's 'A Complex Fate' is a thought-provoking, richly detailed biography of Shirer. Written with the full cooperation of Shirer's family, and generously illustrated with photographs, it introduces a new generation of readers to a supremely t.