prize, mary lou warner for covering massive resistance to desegregation in virginia, merriam attenburg for used car rackets and other terrible things that took advantage of people. so right away i had the mentors and great mentor that i had was a city editor named sid epstein. i ve been blessed. i ve had the two greatest editors perhaps of my lifetime in many ways, sid epstein who taught me and gave me every opportunity, i was 16, he said, go cover kennedy s inauguration. go out there and see what the crowds are doing. and the other great editor, of course, was ben bradley at the washington post. but during watergate, you can see in this book, even though it is not about watergate and just about these five years from 16 to 21, you can see that what i learned at the star about perseverance, about knocking at doors at night, rather than seeing people in their offices where they re under pressure, all the techniques that we used