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    On The Road With Charles Kuralt
    On The Road With Charles Kuralt
    On The Road With Charles Kuralt
    Audiobook (abridged)1 hour

    On The Road With Charles Kuralt

    Written by Charles Kuralt and Wallace Kuralt

    Narrated by Charles Kuralt

    4.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Charles Kuralt's classic bestseller is now on audio!

    On The Road With Charles Kuralt

    Featuring Charles Kuralt with an introduction by Wallace Kuralt

    "To read the front pages, you might conclude that Americans are mostly out for themselves...but you can't travel the back roads very long without discovering a multitude of gentle people doing good for others with no expectation of gain or recognition."

    In this collection of short audio essays, Charles Kuralt takes us from the countryside to the big cities to introduce us to the fascinating people and places that only he could find. Kuralt captures the humor and compassion of ordinary people leading extraordinary lives.

    From the best selling book On The Road With Charles Kuralt, these classic stories represent Kuralt's defining, and perhaps finest, work. Never before released on audio, this collection ensures that his unforgettable voice will be heard by generations to come.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Audio
    Release dateNov 1, 2000
    ISBN9780743544504
    On The Road With Charles Kuralt
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    Charles Kuralt

    Charles Bishop Kuralt was ajournalist. He is most widely known for his long career with CBS, first for his "On the Road" segments on The CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite, and later as the first anchor of CBS News Sunday Morning, a position he held for fifteen years

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    • 5/5
      I recall when Charles Kuralt did his little stories on television, so when I saw this book at a yard sale, I decided to give it a try.It's hard for me to review a book like this: most of the "stories" are only two or three pages long. However, the author packs a lot of story in the brief chapters. Some of the people he met make you go "hmm", others make you smile or chuckle, and more than one brought tears to my eyes.Why would a book full of little stories about ordinary people move me in this manner?I think it's a combination of the truth and Charles Kuralt's literary talent. Whatever it is, it works, and I appreciate it.Saved on my shelves for a future reread!
    • 4/5
      I bought this because I had very good memories of Kuralt on cbs Sunday morning. He's dead now.
    • 4/5
      Wow. This was an awesome book. It's a great look at an America long gone, and a nice change from the gloom and doom and man's inhumanity to man that's usually in the news. The gumball story brought back memories of saving up to buy the one for $3 on the shelves of Woolworth's.What's further amusing is that it was a world long-gone when Kuralt wrote this book in 1985--it's even further from our grasp now.
    • 3/5
      Decades ago, Charles Kuralt used to do this little human-interest news segment where he'd travel around the United States basically talking to random people he found interesting for one reason or another, or who lived in interesting places or did interesting -- if sometimes only mildly interesting -- things. This is a collection of those segments in text form, with black-and-while pictures. It was published in 1985, although some of these pieces seem to date back at least to the 70s.Each segment is only a few pages long, usually featuring a few words of wisdom from the person in question. Most of them are old people -- now probably all dead, I suppose, which is a slightly odd, slightly sad thing to think about -- and many of them are people who once pursued, or still were pursuing, professions or ways of life that had already effectively disappeared by the 80s. Some of them are just odd characters. And quite a few are people who do nice things for others without reward.All of which sounds very charming, so I feel kind of bad for not liking this more than I did. But the truth is, these profiles are all so short and shallow that there's not a lot to really get into here. Often there doesn't really seem to be a whole lot to be said, and much of the book, to me, reads more or less like: "Look, here's a guy from rural Kentucky who's a croquet champion. Isn't that funny? You expect only rich people to play croquet. And, hey, this old guy makes kites for kids! Isn't that nice? And now, a town with some pretty butterflies!" There's really not a lot there, and when there is, when it's clear there's some really interesting backstory and details it would be cool to hear a lot more about, that's not forthcoming, either. Which is too bad, as I really would have liked to hear more about, say, the high school class who built an airplane in wood shop. I didn't actually understand that story, to be honest -- was that actually a real, functional airplane? -- but I would have liked to.Mostly it's all very sweet, in a folksy sort of way, but, well... I feel like a terrible, irredeemable product of 21st century cynicism saying so, but there's really only one word for the overall feel of the writing and the presentation, and that's... corny. Even by the standards of its time, it's corny.
    • 5/5
      Fantastic well worth listening to...brought a tear to my eye more than once...
    • 3/5
      Disappointed that it is only a few stories from the book and not the whole book. What I did hear was very listenable and interesting.