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Books about UPI

Source books about the history of United Press International and related to its coverage of events.
Recommended additions to this bibilography are welcomed. Submit your suggestions using the form at the bottom of the page.

Baillie, Hugh. High Tension The Recollections of Hugh Baillie
Bartholomew, Frank. H. Bart Memoirs of Frank H. Bartholomew , President United Press,1955-58, United Press International,1958-62. 1983.
Buckley, Priscilla L.  String of Pearls: On the News Beat in New York and Paris
Cohen, Ronald E. and Gordon, Gregory. Down to the Wire: UPI's Fight for Survival. 1989. Buy: Down to the Wire: Upi's Fight for Survival
Cronkite, Walter. A Reporter's Life
Daniloff, Nicholas. Of Spies and Spokesmen: My Life As a Cold War Correspondent 
Editors of United Press International Broadcast Services. United Press International Broadcast Stylebook.
Gaver, Jack. Season In, Season Out: A Diary of the 1965-1966 Broadway Theater by the United Press International Drama Critic.1966.
Halstead, Dirck.  Moments in Time: Photos and Stories from One of America's Top Photojournalists
Harnett, Richard M. and Ferguson, Billy G. Ferguson. Unipress: United Press International : Covering the 20th Century. 2003. Buy: Unipress: United Press International : Covering the 20th Century
Harnett, Richard M. Wirespeak
Haynes, Gary. Picture This!: Classic photos and the untold story of United Press International Newspictures. Forward by Walter Cronkite. Bulfinch Press, New York/Boston. 2006.
Hlavacek, John. United Press Invades India: Memoirs of a Foreign Correspondent, 1944-1952Hlavacek, John and Pegge. Freelancing in Paradise: The Story of Two American Reporters Who Supported Their Family by Covering Turbulent Times in the Caribbean, 1958-1963 
Hlavacek, John. Letters Home: An American in China, 1939 to 1944 
Hlavacek (Parker), Pegge.  Diapers on a Dateline: The Adventures of a United Press Family in India During the 1950s
Hoberecht, Earnest.  Asia is my beat
Killen, Patrick J. Asia Earnie
Kilgore, Maggie.  Remember to Laugh: Writing My Way Around the World
Kuettner, Al. March To A Promised Land: The Civil Rights Files of a White Reporter 1952-1968 (Capital Currents)
LaPolla, Paul. The News That Made The Year 1966 (The UPI-Random House News Annual)
Miller, Webb.  I found no peace : the journal of a foreign correspondent
Morris, Joe Alex. Deadline Every Minute: The Story of the United Press
Scripps, E.W.  Damned Old Crank - A Self Portrait Of E. W. Scripps Drawn From His Unpublished Writings
Smith, Howard K.  Events Leading Up to My Death: The Life of a Twentieth-Century Reporter
Smith, Merriman. Thank You Mr. President: A White House Notebook
Smith, Merriman. The Good New Days
Smith, Merriman. Meet Mister Eisenhower
Smith, Merriman.   Merriman Smith's Book of Presidents: A White House Memoir
Smith, Merriman.  The murder of the young President
Smith, Merriman. A president is many men
Smith, Merriman. A President's odyssey
Tartarian, Roger Day of Mourning, Day of Shame: And Other Essays
Thomas, Helen. Front Row at the White House : My Life and Times
Tremaine, Frank and Kay.  The Attack on Pearl Harbor: By Two Who Were There
United Press International. Assassination: Robert F Kennedy, 1925-1968 
United Press International and American Heritage. Churchill, The Life Triumphant 
United Press International and American Heritage. Four Days the Historical Record of the Death of President Kennedy 
United Press International and World Almanac. THE IMPEACHMENT REPORT a Guide to Congressional Proceedings in the Case of R.M. NixonWebb, Kate; Wood, Tracy, et al. War Torn: Stories of War from the Women Reporters who Covered Vietnam
Younger, Joan.  Girl Reporter, Wartime NY

UPI-Related Websites

The Downholders (also known as the Lowry site)The Dead Microphone Club
United Press International Centennial Anniversary Website
United Press International Wikipedia entry
Rights information for United Press International Photographs
Helen Thomas: Life After UPI

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