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Title: A Major Disappointment
Review: The best part of the book is the forward written by Walter Cronkite - in itself is of important to journalism and our first amendment rights.If you're going to by this book for the two audio CDs in order to "Relive the Events That Stopped Our Lives. . .," don't. The audio CDs are mostly a narrative, read a bit over dramatically by Bill Kurtis. The actual news broadcasts and historical audio has been edited down to modern-day 30-second sound bites, as if we're too dumb to listen to anything longer. It would have been far better to provide *at least* five minutes of uninterrupted audio so we could experience some of the tension and awe of the first moon landing, the assassination of a president or the launch of an invasion. I can hear Bill Kurtis just about any day of the week on TV. We are of an age where technology can help us re-present history in significant chunks. Too bad this book and audio CDs don't do so.
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