don't think we have any contemporary comparisons to ernie pyle. i don't office the way we report it has changed so much for just that he had that remarkable combination of the human touch in the extraordinary writing skills. he had the kind of credibility that the generals had to acknowledge. they couldn't ignore the common soldier. the story without error. it totally unclever as the war. it was a do or die time anyways and important war to end up lasting legacy of telling a story in a way people could connect with and remember humanize the people who force the politicians who might've wanted to move quickly to other things. they have been so many people trusted in ways that they didn't trace the generals in the politicians. he force to be reckoned with. these are the things he would tell me not even try to understand. to you at home there figures or one that went to and just didn't come back. you didn't see hemlines so grotesque and pasty besides the gravel road and france. we saw him by the. that's the difference. >> welcome to bookworks. we are

mencken ernie pyle and ernie kempton you realize that this is literature.it's an american art form and is literature and history retton and that present tense. we give you perspective on our own scandals tragedies and triumphs. >> you can read about earthquakes are about floods closer political scandal or you can read about the way people are thinking about and talking about it and writing about it at the time. >> are scandals and contemporary terms, there is no precedence. maybe you can close in on scandals of the 30s, 40s and 50's. >> that is what this book does. they give us perspective on our own problems so when you read about a new scandal and we have faith zero j. -- writing about o.j. simpson in the monica lewinsky scandal. but damon runyon writing about the al capone trial or the death of john dillinger. we have got 9/11 in our contemporary and steve lopez and peggy noonan and mike daily but then you read about jack london talking about the 1950 earthquakes in san francisco and it creates a perspective. we have been through a lot of this stuff befo

don't think we have any contemporary comparisons to ernie pyle, and i don't know if we don't report as much or he had the combination of the human touch and extraordinary writing skills. he had the kind of credibility that the generals had to acknowledge. they couldn't ignore the common soldier. that story was out there. it totally unglamourized the war. it was a do or die time, and it was an important war to win, that lasting legacy of telling the story in a way people connected with and could remember humanized the people fighting the war, forced the politicians who might have wanted to move quickly on to other things. they had it in black and white from somebody people trusted in ways that they didn't trust generals, and they didn't trust the politicians. he remained a force to be reckoned with. these are the things you need not try to understand. to you at home, they call him the figures or the near one who went away and just didn't come back. you didn't see him lying so grotesque and pasty in the road in france. we saw him, by the multiple thousands, that's the difference. we are

your repeople, you know, ernie pyle, murray. you realize that this is literature.merican art form. its literature, and its history written in the present tense giving your perspective on our own times, on our own scandal's, tragedies', and triumphs. >> you can read and a very dry weigh about earthquakes or floods or political scandal, or you can read about the way people were talking about and thinking about it. the best writing about it is at the time. >> i think we think of our scandals in contemporary terms like there is no precedent. maybe you can close in on the scandals from the 30's, 40's or 50's's that would make something to the look tame. >> and that is what this book does. one of the things, it gives a perspective on our own problems. when you read about any of the scandals, and we have the adjacent sin, the monica lets the scandal. we have kathleen parker's riding on that. but you go back to david runyon writing about the health upon trial or the death of john devonshire, you know, we have september 11th in our contemporary times, columns why steve lope