Meetings: A Reporter's Notebook

by Jess Stearn

Mae West, Johnny Carson, Taylor Caldwell, Elvis Presley, Carl Sandburg, Eleanor Roosevelt, Grace Kelly, Joseph P. Kennedy, and Clark Gable are just a few of the people with whom Jess Stearn has crossed paths in his storied career as a journalist and author. From the Lindbergh baby kidnapping to the rise of rock 'n' roll to the Kennedy assassinations, these "snapshots" from his notebook offer a compelling look at American history in the 20th century.

310 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1997

About the author

Stearn was a Jewish-American journalist and author of more than thirty books, nine of which were bestsellers. As an author, Stearn specialized in sensationalist speculative non-fiction. His early work focused on outsiders and marginalized individuals such as prostitutes, drug addicts, and homosexuals. His later work focused on spirituality, the occult, and psychic phenomena. His most popular works were two biographies on the American psychic Edgar Cayce; Stearn was a conference speaker for the Association for Research and Enlightenment and a proponent of Cayce's theories.