A Life on the Road - Softcover

For more than 30 years, Charles Kuralt, the host of CBS News' Sunday Morning, has traveled the world's byways. In this warm, deeply affecting memoir, Kuralt retraces the steps of a journey that began when he was a young CBS news reporter frantically trying to cover international events, a journey that took him to South America, Vietnam, and the Okefenokee Swamp. From an Arizona cowboy who confessed to wearing pantyhose under his chaps and a Moscow dentist who tearfully thanked former American POW's for saving his life in a German prison camp, to memorable meetings with Marlon Brando and Nikita Khrushchev---here is a story of triumphs and tragedies, swimming pigs and cattle roundups, and one man's lifelong love of the road and the people he's met along the way.

Charles Kuralt was a journalist best known for his decades-long career at CBS News, first as the host of the "On the Road" segment and later as the anchor of CBS News Sunday Morning. Among the many broadcasting honors he received are three George Foster Peabody Awards and 13 Emmy Awards from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, as well as being named "Broadcaster of the Year" by the International Radio and Television Society in 1983. Kuralt published six books and a memoir, A Life on the Road, which was the #1 nonfiction bestseller of 1990.