star. and all of a sudden i was the kid with the greatest seat in the country. the beginning of the kennedy administration, the beginning of the civil rights movement, and i had grown up in jim crow washington. i went to a segregated public school in the nation s capitol until brown versus board of education when i was in the sixth grade. almost immediately i was able to cover civil rights among other things. so i got to watch this amazing thing happen in our country at a time of our greatest change and got to cover everything as a teenager. maybe lucky, carl, but it is amazing how much luckier you ve got with how much harder you would work. that s also clear. berman said this is a love letter to journaljournalism. you say people were shouting, typewriters klattered and chinged. beneath my feet i could feel the