Biography of journalist Wallace Carroll, one of the most influential journalists of the 20t Century. Carroll covered the League of Nations and World War II as. UP correspondent before becoming news editor of the Washington Bureau of the New York Times and finally editor and publisher of the Winston-Salem Journal. Donald Graham has called the book "essential reading for anyone interested in daily newspapers, and Jon Sawyer, head of the Pulitzer Center, "the best roadmap I know if we aim to restore journalism's power to persuade and inform."