The Daily Miracle- A Memoir of Newspapering

“The Daily A Memoir of Newspapering” is a meditation on the importance of the newspaper in daily life -- and on the talented, quirky and driven men and women who saw newspapers as a calling. Fraser Smith’s account comes with great concern and sadness as newspapers die or turn into ghosts of their formerly vibrant selves. He shows, with humor and insigh, what we are losing more even than many of us realize. His career spanned the assassination of JFK, the inventionof the Internet and the “fake news” era of Donald Trump. Newspaper men and women have always absorbed the diatribes of political figures as part of the job. They knew they were not the news. Their job was to get the story and get out of the way. The Daily Miracle is a narrative of one newsman’s half-century of reporting, commenting and analyzing. It’s a social and political history of the United States. He wrote about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil rights movement, Watergate, the Vietnam War, the moon landing and the death of newspapers -- even now an underreported story he insists. His book is an obituary. He mourns but takes solace from a career that included some of the newspaper’s most important contributions to democracy and to American life.