Connecting Morley Safer to a Bygone CBS Colleague

How the 60 Minutes correspondent came to write the foreword for the biography of William L. Shirer.

AComplexFateCoverIn the foreword of Ken Cuthbertson’s biography of one-time Chicago Tribune and CBS Radio star William L. Shirer, Morley Safer writes: ‘This book has an almost Shakespearian quality: larger-than-life characters, broken friendships, pride and regret, all set against a background of war and depredation.’

Safer is right. After a stellar journalism career, Shirer found himself after World War II blacklisted during the McCarthy era, at which point he wrote a massive bestseller about the Nazi regime.

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