American - Journalist | October 6, 1925 - June 23, 2005
Writing about your family is the hardest thing, unless you had the perfect happy family life, which very few of us have had.
Shana Alexander
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People say to me now, 'Oh, it must have been so glamorous to grow up in hotels, eat in restaurants.' Of course, we hated it.
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'60 Minutes' was a disaster for me because it made everybody think that I was the house liberal of CBS, which is the part that I was playing. It was fun for a while.
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I couldn't have made it without knowing how to use laughter to get from one day to the next.
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Before I ever heard about '60 Minutes,' I had been a writer, a columnist for 'Life' magazine and for 'Newsweek' - that was about as high as you could get in column writing. I care about my writing. I'm not a quack-quack TV journalist.
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Every time I get ready to chuck it, I remind myself that I can accomplish a lot in that little minute, and they remember what I say.
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Telephone operators recognize my voice before I give my name, and say, 'Sock it to Kilpatrick.'
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I have been active as a writer and journalist for nearly forty years. But the number of great reporters I have run across in that time would make, as they say, a slim book. Without question, the top man on my list would be Tommy Thompson.
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In Utah, the American melting pot is unstirred. Three out of four people are Mormons, and they are all here in this bleakly beautiful sanctuary 'behind the Zion curtain' because of religious persecution.
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The Mormon belief system unites curiously American pairs of opposites. A relish for the dog-eat-dog practices of the marketplace goes hand in hand with the stern obligation to 'help thy neighbor.'
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In Mormon society and culture, highest values are placed on hard work, thrift, clean living, obedience to the elders and, above all, on the importance of the family.
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Mormonism is a male religion, a dream of prophets and patriarchs.
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