Abstract
Edward R. Murrow is an icon of American journalism. Three full-length biographies and scores of other studies have recounted his reporting of World War II, his exposé of Senator Joseph McCarthy, and his criticism of television's trivialization. However, Murrow's brief postjournalism career as director of the U.S. Information Agency (USIA) during the Kennedy administration has received comparatively little attention. Gregory M. Tomlin fills that gap with a concise, lucid, and sympathetic analysis of Murrow's tenure at the USIA, which Tomlin describes as “the propaganda ministry of the United States throughout the Cold War” (p. xvi). Propaganda did not carry the same negative meaning then as it does today, and much of what Murrow and the USIA did would now be called “public diplomacy” (hence the book's subtitle). Nonetheless, Murrow was continually challenged with negotiating “the balance between his agency's presentation of news and its championing of America, since the USIA could not opt out of either” (p. 29).
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