Double Vision: Reflections on My Heritage, Life, and Profession

by Ben H. Bagdikian

This dramatic memoir by one of America's most respected journalists and media critics takes us from the author's narrow escape from a Turkish massacre of Armenians as a young child, to his secret acquisition of the Pentagon Papers, to the transformation of American journalism over the last half century.

256 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1995

Reviews

[Venkatesh · Rating 3 out of 5]

Ben Bagdikian deserves his moment in the sun, for being a character in The Post (which is not a great date movie TBH) and for his defense of and criticisms of journalism.

This book is a personal memoir and a professional one - the two are interwoven and the personal feeds into the professional. The relationship between Ben and Jim Rhea during desegregation crises was pretty interesting and made me rethink some stuff in my life. And the familial aftermath of the Armenian genocide of 1920 is powerful.

Also, he's a pretty funny writer!