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03878aam a2200361 i 4500 001 940D54B6223B11EF96E545AA58ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240604012727 008 240507s2024 nyua d 001 0aeng d 010 $a bl2024009433 020 $a 0593862791 020 $a 9780593862797 035 $a (OCoLC)1432789499 040 $a NjBwBT $b eng $c IEP $d IEP $e rda $d UAP $d SILO 100 1 $a Kristof, Nicholas D., $d 1959- $e author. 245 10 $a Chasing Hope : $b A Reporter's Life / $c Nicholas D. Kristof. 250 $a First large print edition. 264 1 $a [New York] : $b Random House Large Print, $c 2024. 300 $a x, 746 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 500 $a Includes index. 505 0 $a A plane crash -- Overthrowing the patriarchy, in eighth grade -- A family of spies -- A glimpse of journalism -- A wimpy kid -- High school rabble-rouser -- Faking it at Harvard -- From Oxford to the Khyber Pass -- 'I will shoot you' -- Making mistakes in Arabic -- Abe Rosenthal makes an offer -- Cub reporter -- Finding Sheryl..and a job abroad -- My soulmate -- How little we knew -- Witness to a massacre -- We become 'hoodlums' -- The prize -- An escaped felon -- Frequenting a brothel -- Journey into a war -- 'We have to kill them' -- 'Do they play baseball in America?' -- I become an editor -- I begin my column -- The Iraq war -- Covering genocide -- Where's the line? -- What I learned from genocide -- The Arab spring -- Covering genocide and poverty left me an optimist -- A day in the life of a columnist -- Exorcising our ghosts -- Women hold up half the sky -- Covering Donald Trump -- Politics? 'Don't do it' -- My hat in the ring -- Navigating a campaign -- 'To fill a person's heart' -- Acknowledgments -- Index. 520 $a "Since 1984, Nicholas Kristof has worked almost continuously for The New York Times as a reporter, foreign correspondent, bureau chief, and now columnist, becoming one of the foremost reporters of his generation. Here, he recounts his event-filled path from a small-town farm in Oregon to every corner of the world.Reporting from Hong Kong, Beijing, and Tokyo, while traveling far afield to India, Africa, and Europe, Kristof witnessed and wrote about century-defining events: the Tiananmen Square protests and massacre, the Yemeni civil war, the Darfur genocide in Sudan, and the wave of addiction and despair that swept through his hometown and a broad swath of working-class America. Fully aware that coverage of atrocities generates considerably fewer page views than the coverage of politics, he nevertheless continued to weaponize his pen against regimes and groups violating basic human rights, raising the cost of oppression and torture. Some of the risks he took while doing so make for hair-raising reading. Kristof writes about some of the great members of his profession and introduces us to extraordinary people he has met, such as the dissident whom he helped escape from China and a Catholic nun who browbeat a warlord into releasing schoolgirls he had kidnapped. These are the people, the heroes, who have allowed Kristof to remain optimistic. Side by side with the worst of humanity, you always see the best.This is a candid memoir of vulnerability and courage, humility and purpose, mistakes and learning-a singular tale of the trials, tribulations, and hope to be found in a life dedicated to the pursuit of truth"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Kristof, Nicholas D., $d 1959- $v Biography. 650 0 $a Journalists $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a Journalism $z United States. 655 7 $a Autobiographies. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Large print books. $2 lcgft 941 $a 2 945 $a lpt 952 $l VOPB384 $d 20240628010227.0 952 $l CDPF771 $d 20240604014445.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=940D54B6223B11EF96E545AA58ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b C@VInitiate Another SILO Locator Search