Unsealed FBI records, private family correspondence, and interviews with Walter Cronkite, Mike Wallace, Charles Collingwood, Douglas Edwards, and more than one hundred other journalists provide Loren Ghiglione with a rare look inside Don Hollenbeck's controversial career. Most recently depicted in the film Good Night, and Good Luck, Hollenbeck was involved with some of the most important developments in the evolution of twentieth-century American journalism. He began his career at the Nebraska State Journal (where he married the boss's daughter) before becoming an editor at William Randolph Hearst's rip-roaring Omaha Bee-News. He participated in the emerging field of photojournalism at the Associated Press, assisted in creating the innovative, ad-free PM newspaper in New York City, reported from the European theater for NBC radio during World War II, and anchored television newscasts at CBS during the era of Edward R. Murrow. Hollenbeck's pioneering, prize-winning radio program CBS Views the Press (1947-1950) was a declaration of independence from a print medium that had dominated American newsmaking for close to 250 years. Hollenbeck's program candidly criticized the giants of the New York press: the prestigious New York Times, The Daily News (then America's largest-circulation paper), Hearst's flagship Journal-American, and the popular morning tabloid the New York Daily Mirror. For his honest dissection of the press, Hollenbeck was smeared by conservative anticommunists, especially Hearst columnist Jack O'Brian. The subject of depression, alcoholism, three failed marriages, and two network firings (and worried about a third), Hollenbeck committed suicide at age forty-nine in 1954, the same year as the televised confrontation between Murrow and Senator Joseph McCarthy and the Army-McCarthy hearings. Ghiglione's graceful and balanced biography captures the importance of Hollenbeck as an early pioneer of media criticism and a symbol of America's tortured conscience. Ghiglione's story also chronicles in detail the stark consequences of the anticommunist frenzy that seized America in the late 1940s and 1950s.