Abstract
When I left The Wall Street Journal in 1972, I figured my newspaper days were over. I had just turned forty, I had been a reporter for the bourgeois press for fifteen years, and I was eager to get started on a new life of teaching and freelance writing. I taught journalism part-time at Columbia University in New York and then moved to Washington to teach it full-time at American University. Newspaper ink was still in my veins, but my future seemed to be in the classroom.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website.
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