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Douglass K. Daniel has practiced journalism and studied and written about media and history. He was a reporter and editor for the Associated Press for nearly three decades. Daniel also taught journalism as an assistant professor at Kansas State University and Ohio University. He is the author of several books, including biographies of the 60 Minutes correspondent Harry Reasoner, Oscar-winning writer and director Richard Brooks, and celebrated actress Anne Bancroft.
Douglass K. Daniel's book offers readers a fascinating examination of World War II journalism. While there have been studies about the individual work of civilian reporters, there have been none documenting the efforts of combat correspondents drawn from the military. Daniel has plugged a gap in journalism studies with his work, especially because the dispatches he uses were 'deemed unfit for the eyes of the American public at the time they were written'---Ray E. Boomhower, biographer of Ernie Pyle, Robert L. Sherrod, and Richard Tregaskis This is an excellent volume. Combining a fascinating trove of stories written by Marine combat correspondents, with elegantly written essays that situate their journalism in the bigger picture, Douglass Daniel has produced a must-read book for anyone interested in either World War II or the US Marine Corps.---Steven Casey, author of War Beat Pacific: The American Media at War against Japan
