“By 1857 there were at least 112 publishers in New York City. While most were “respectable” houses, emphasizing genteel, religious, and domestic literature, others catered to a rougher readership. These outfits churned out blood-and-thunder adventures, sadomasochistic romances laced with sex… — Mike Wallace Copy Share Image
“A string of city histories appeared, some in the elegiac vein pioneered by Abram Dayton’s Last Days of Knickerbocker New York (1882), others works of substantial scholarship, much though not all of it written by women. Martha Lamb’s History of… — Mike Wallace Copy Share Image
It's astonishing what you learn and feel and see along the way. That's why a reporter's job, as you know, is such a joy. — Mike Wallace Copy Share Image
“Residents grimly spoke of the crisis as “O Grab Me”—“embargo” spelled backward.” — Mike Wallace Copy Share Image
“The key to success in the Gold Room was information. Knowledge of a battle’s outcome obtained an hour before one’s competitors could be parlayed… — Mike Wallace Copy Share Image
“When the popular actor John Hodgkinson appeared in the red coat of a British officer, hecklers wouldn’t allow him to continue until he had… — Mike Wallace Copy Share Image
When I came to CBS it was the mother church. I mean that was - everybody wanted to go to work for CBS News. — Mike Wallace Copy Share Image
Even though Jack Kennedy and I were about the same age and lived in the same neighborhood and attended the same elementary school, our… — Mike Wallace Copy Share Image
“Warner took to writing in hopes of making money and submitted a pious and sentimental novel to Harpers, which rebuffed it with the single… — Mike Wallace Copy Share Image
“Horace Greeley cautioned one upstate hopeful: “You do not realize how little the mere talent of writing well has to do with success or… — Mike Wallace Copy Share Image
“Political editors were a truculent breed. Leggett’s boss, William Cullen Bryant, took a cowskin whip to William Leete Stone of the Commercial Advertiser in… — Mike Wallace Copy Share Image
But I was never, you know, when I see some kids today who are close to their parents, close to their friends... I think… — Mike Wallace Copy Share Image
“And among the prissiest. Gilder’s method of raising public standards of taste and morality required the production of bloodless pages. As custodian of genteel culture he sought out the delicate and the refined and stood guard against the vulgar and the vernacular. Walt Whitman, though a personal friend, was banned from the Century’s pages; a bit of Mark Twain’s Huckleberry… — Mike Wallace Copy Share
Covering Richard Nixon's triumphant run in 1968 turned out to be my last major assignment as a general correspondent for CBS News. In September… — Mike Wallace Copy Share Image
