Shelby Scates was a prize-winning journalist and columnist for International News Service, United Press International, the Associated Press, and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. He is the author of Warren G. Magnuson and the Shaping of Twentieth-Century America.

"Too bad Ben Hecht never met Shelby Scates, a journalist’s journalist. His memoir is an enchanting crackle of political history (I especially loved the stories about Huey Long and JFK), war chronicles (in the Middle East and Cambodia), and other treacherous adventures, like his white-knuckle climb up the Karakoram mountain range in Pakistan. And it is all so elegantly written you’ll despair when you finish it, as I did. A real friend of a book."

• Obion CountryThe Makings of a Journalist: Blue Sky, Blue WaterPoliticsJournalistJournalismNewsmanOlympia1968More HappenstanceThe Six-Day WarThe Palestinians: The "War of Attrition"Cambodia and UsMountainsHickmanA Few Words about SourcesIndexMaps

Shelby Scates was a prize-winning journalist and columnist for International News Service, United Press International, the Associated Press, and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. He is the author of Warren G. Magnuson and the Shaping of Twentieth-Century America.

"Too bad Ben Hecht never met Shelby Scates, a journalist’s journalist. His memoir is an enchanting crackle of political history (I especially loved the stories about Huey Long and JFK), war chronicles (in the Middle East and Cambodia), and other treacherous adventures, like his white-knuckle climb up the Karakoram mountain range in Pakistan. And it is all so elegantly written you’ll despair when you finish it, as I did. A real friend of a book."

• Obion CountryThe Makings of a Journalist: Blue Sky, Blue WaterPoliticsJournalistJournalismNewsmanOlympia1968More HappenstanceThe Six-Day WarThe Palestinians: The "War of Attrition"Cambodia and UsMountainsHickmanA Few Words about SourcesIndexMaps

Shelby Scates was a prize-winning journalist and columnist for International News Service, United Press International, the Associated Press, and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. He is the author of Warren G. Magnuson and the Shaping of Twentieth-Century America.

"Too bad Ben Hecht never met Shelby Scates, a journalist’s journalist. His memoir is an enchanting crackle of political history (I especially loved the stories about Huey Long and JFK), war chronicles (in the Middle East and Cambodia), and other treacherous adventures, like his white-knuckle climb up the Karakoram mountain range in Pakistan. And it is all so elegantly written you’ll despair when you finish it, as I did. A real friend of a book."

• Obion CountryThe Makings of a Journalist: Blue Sky, Blue WaterPoliticsJournalistJournalismNewsmanOlympia1968More HappenstanceThe Six-Day WarThe Palestinians: The "War of Attrition"Cambodia and UsMountainsHickmanA Few Words about SourcesIndexMaps