Inside of Time: My Journey from Alaska to Israel
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| Rating | : | 4.49 (871 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0786710837 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 352 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-05-10 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Five Stars" according to Jo Ann G. Dolle. I am pleased to have purchased this book by Dr. Gruber. Everything went very well with my purchase.. compelling A role model because of her age, sex, and faith. I didn't find out much about Alaska but was captured by her involvement in her world. It was a different time. Could her experiences be repeated today?. "Interesting life in an interesting time" according to JudyC. As a journalist, Ruth Gruber was eyewitness to so many critical events during World War II. What made it fascinating to me is that she was a Jewish woman at a time when neither Jews nor women held prominent roles. As a young single woman, she travelled all over the world writing stories and meeting very prominent people. She also was not born into the upper echelons but seemed to have bumped into it by applying for a job in Washington. My mother lived in Washington during WWII and worked in the Pentagon so I was particularly drawn to this story. It was well written and gave great behind-the-s
Sixteen pages of photographs add to this enthralling autobiography by one of America's best journalists.. Inside of Time is a book for everyone eager to read about the personal and human side of our stirring times. The vivid recollections of a trailblazing eyewitness to history, combined with stories of Gruber’s intimate friendships with luminaries of the century, has created a book to cherish. Spanning 1941–1955, Gruber also recalls the fierce anti-Semitism she overcame in Congress, the DP camps she saw in Germany after WWII, and traveling with the Israeli army during the War for Independence. In the Roosevelt administration and as a foreign correspondent with the New York Herald Tribune, Gruber worked with, wrote about, and was mentored by a cast that included Harold Ickes, FDR’s Secretary of the Interior, who in 1941 appointed Gruber as his personal representative to Alaska; Helen Rogers Reid, Herald Tribune publisher and Gruber’s boss, who scheduled her to speak at lecture forums where Gruber shared the podium with Churchill and DeGaulle; Golda Meir, with whom she swapped kitchen table confidences about their families; David Ben-Gurion, whose prophetic voice made him the most inspiring leader Gruber ever knew; and Eleanor Roosevelt, whom Gruber shepherded to Israel in the early 1950s
From Publishers Weekly Gruber was present for some of the most significant moments in mid-20th-century history, including the Nuremberg trials and the creation of the State of Israel, and now, at the age of 90, she still has the energy to comb through some of the 350 notebooks she filled during her career as a bureaucrat and journalist to write about her experiences during the years 1941-1952 with clarity, insight and warmth. . 16 pages of b&w photos not seen by PW Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc. Along the way, she developed relationships with such world leaders as Eleanor Roosevelt, David Ben-Gurion and Golda Meir (who served Gruber homemade cookies in her Tel Aviv apartment). The war over, she returned to journalism, reporting from Europe and the Middle East. The assignment lasted 18 months, bu