![]() ![]() "A Good Life" captures a particular blend of wartime experience and postwar optimism that fueled the careers of young veterans from the generation of John F. With literary grace and irreverent wit, Bradlee describes how a generation ofyoungAmericans, tested and matured by World War n, came home fired with a romantic determination to make a better world, and to live a good life in the process. The unexpected pleasure in reading Ben Bradlee's memoir is to discover that it opens with an absorbing and meaningful coming-ofage story. That Benjamin Crowningshield Bradlee and some of his friends chose careers in newspapering gives "A Good Life" a special appeal for reporters and editors. The Making of a Great Editor A Good Life Newspapering and Other Adventures Benjamin Bradlee Simon & Schuster. ![]()
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