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Driven: A Life in Public Service and Journalism from LBJ to CNN

Contributors:

Tom Johnson (Author)

Judy Woodruff (Foreword by)

Contributors: Tom Johnson (Author) ; Judy Woodruff (Foreword by)

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BISAC categories: Biography & Autobiography -> Editors, Journalists, Publishers

BISAC categories: Biography & Autobiography -> Political

BISAC categories: History -> United States -> 20th Century

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Driven brings a seasoned perspective to today's conversations about government, media, and the future of truth in the form of a deeply personal and long-awaited autobiography by Tom Johnson, an award-winning journalist who helped shape the twenty-four-hour news media as we know it. Johnson's storied career in public service and journalism that began as a reporter at the Macon Telegraph in Georgia spans the Lyndon B. Johnson administration, where he was an eyewitness to painful negotiations on Vietnam and notified the president that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. had been assassinated, through the executive leadership of the LA Times and, finally, Ted Turner's upstart CNN in Atlanta.

From his perspective "inside the room," Johnson provides eyewitness accounts of LBJ's triumphs and failings as well as an on-the-ground view of the magnificent achievements and significant shortfalls of late twentieth-century American journalism. Johnson is also candid about his lifelong struggle with depression and has actively worked in retirement as a leader in mental health, cancer research, Alzheimer's, and addiction treatment and recovery. With more than eight decades behind him, Driven is not just Johnson's look at the past but a chance for his story to offer guidance about finding balance in an uncertain future.
ISBN-10: 0820374539
ISBN-13: 9780820374536
Author: Johnson, Tom, Woodruff, Judy, N/A
Publisher: University of Georgia Press

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ISBN-13: 9780820374536

ISBN-10: 0820374539

Publish Date: October 1, 2025

On Sale Date: January 1, 0001

Language: English

Pages: 368

Dimensions: 8.9 × 6.2 × 1.6 in

Weight: 1.7 lbs

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