David Reed

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David Reed


Born
Chicago, The United States
Genre
Nonfiction, History


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David Reed was born in Chicago, Illinois. He graduated from the University of Chicago at age 18 and began his journalism career with the Chicago City News Service. He later joined the Chicago Daily News.

Reed was a roving editor with Reader's Digest who reported from more than 100 countries and covered more than a dozen wars, including wars in Vietnam, Angola, Nicaragua, Cambodia, and many conflicts elsewhere in the world. Reed learned Swahili during a two year fellowship from the Institute of Current World Affairs to Kenya during the Mau Mau insurgency in the 1950s. In the late 1950s, he was a reporter for the U.S. News and World Report. He joined the Reader's Digest in the early 1960s and worked there for the re ...more

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Average rating: 4.33 · 21 ratings · 4 reviews · 2 distinct works
111 Days In Stanleyville
4.40 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 1965 — 7 editions
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Up Front in Vietnam
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