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- Jan. 10, 1994: Died:William Shirer
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1994
- Jan. 10, 1994 Las Vegas:The New All-American City
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- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- MILESTONES, Page 15
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- <p> DIED. WILLIAM SHIRER, 89, author and journalist; in Boston.
- In the 1930s Shirer covered Europe for the Chicago Tribune and
- befriended Edward R. Murrow, who hired him as a correspondent
- with cbs. In that capacity, Shirer was in Berlin in the opening
- months of World War II. He left in December of 1940, and his
- smuggled diaries became the basis of his first worldwide best
- seller, Berlin Diary. A columnist for the New York Herald Tribune
- and a cbs commentator after the war, Shirer had difficulty finding
- a job in the '50s, when his political opinions put him on the
- wrong side of the McCarthy era. The involuntary sabbatical gave
- Shirer the time to produce his masterpiece, The Rise and Fall
- of the Third Reich, the part-journalistic, part-historical account
- of Europe's darkest hours. Published in 1960, the 1,000-page-plus
- best seller won the National Book Award. Among Shirer's later
- works were The Collapse of the Third Republic (1969), an account
- of the fall of France during World War II; and Gandhi: A Memoir
- (1980), a portrait of Gandhi based on Shirer's travels with
- him throughout India during the early '30s.
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