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Norman Corwin's One World Flight: The Lost Journal of Radio's Greatest Writer |  | Author: Norman Corwin
Creators: Michael C. Keith, Mary Ann Watson
Publisher: Continuum Pub Group
Category: Book
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Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 538063
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 8.5 x 5.7 x 1
ISBN: 0826434118
Dewey Decimal Number: 940.53144
EAN: 9780826434111
ASIN: 0826434118
Publication Date: September 15, 2009
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Norman Corwin's On a Note of Triumph, an epic aural mosaic aired on May 8, 1945, on CBS Radio just after the collapse of Germany. Carl Sandburg called it "one of the all-time great American poems." Corwin went on to win the first Wendell Willkie Award--a trip around the world sponsored by Freedom House and the Common Council for American Unity. Corwin accepted the Willkie Award on the condition it would be a working trip. He wanted the opportunity to record people in various countries and develop a series of documentaries on the state of the postwar world. CBS offered full support. The thirteen-part series, One World Flight, aired in 1947. During Corwin's travels to 17 countries in 1946, he kept a diary of his personal thoughts and observations, and shortly after his return to the States he wrote an intimate account of the journey. Both were put away and forgotten for decades as Corwin faced other writing deadlines. More than sixty years after the trip, media historians Michael C. Keith and Mary Ann Watson unearthed these extraordinary documents, which not only provide a unique analysis of the international scene on the heels of World War Two but also demonstrate the rare power of Corwin's words, the astuteness of his eye, and the depth of his compassion for the human race.
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Inspirational Thinking October 26, 2009
Thomas A. Mascaro
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Corwin delights by putting the reader in his airplane and sharing his enthusiasm and sense of wonder. Approaching Fuji, flying along Japan's coast, spotting the peak above the clouds, he writes: "I went up to the cockpit to sight the old bird. The captain obligingly flew us right up to, over, and around Fuji--and it was one of the top thrills of all the flying I have ever done. The mountain's crater is tilted at a sharp angle, and so was the plane. The result was a fascinating geometrical-spatial-topographical orgy." He makes visual his humility, as in contrasting his bearded, sleepy self to a "fresh" and "bright" Martha Gellhorn (then Mrs. Ernest Hemingway), after a twelve-hour flight. The mark of this remarkable journal, though, is the wedding of inspirational thinking with meaningful, durable writing. We should all appreciate our collective social geography as Corwin does in his One World Flight.
One World October 15, 2009
Sky Master (Princeton, NJ)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
This is a beautifully written and fascinating account of acclaimed "golden age of radio" writer Norman Corwin's journey around the world in 1946. His intimate and highly personal of world leaders and the man-in-the-street interviews are sometimes 60+ years quaint and other times as immediate as yesterday.
A lost classic September 14, 2009
Cliff Milledge
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
What a truly fascinating document of the post-WWII world! I could not help but draw parallels to our current global situation and wonder who we have (if anyone) to fill a similar role in reporting a long-form "big picture" story without the sensational shallowness of today's 24-hour newsmedia.
Corwin's "big picture" is very much intact, but it is his attention to detail, the intimacy of his reportage, and his nuanced descriptions of people and places that truly bring the story to life. It's crucial to have voices such as his in times of crisis. We can only hope that he is not among the last of a dying breed.
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