PREFACE<br > Who? What? Where?<br > When? Why? How?<br > havc alwa)s bccH hooked on journalism--as an eight-year-<br > old pecking out my first "newspaper" oil a toy typewriter，<br > as a cub Fcpo)tc) fo) Thc: New York Jo.rnal of Commerce， as<br >a young writer lot Timc as editor of Newsweek， and as clean<br >of (2olumbia University s Graduate School of Journalism. I<br >h:，~c long been imp，esscd by .journalism s demands for com-<br >pression and clarity; enchanted-mostly--by its practitioners<br >and thcil oft-lcigncd cynicism; tlatteFed by the access it offers<br >Io statesmen， ;utists， and tycoons; infuriated by its im-<br >pcffcctio，~s-and as often as nol， no doubt， blind to them as<br >well.<br > In the comsc ol three decades as a professional journalist， I<br >have l()tllld Ihc Fcwar([s enormous. FFom a [loHt-row scat in<br >lhc l)|css box， I have been pFivileged to witness some of the<br >nlos/ hcmi(-， and SOlllC O[ the most horrible events of our<br >limes the (onqucst of space， tim fight for civil rights， the<br >women s movcmcnl tov equality， the Viemam war， the cainpus<br >rebellion， the sexual revolution， the reban crisis， mindless as-<br >sassinations of public ligmes--as well as mindless assaults t)y<br > ix<br >