Background
Estabrook, Robert Harley was born on October 16, 1918 in Dayton, Ohio, United States. Son of Charles and Christianne M. (Harley) Estabrook.
(Never Dull chronicles the author Robert Estabrook's expan...)
Never Dull chronicles the author Robert Estabrook's expansive journalistic career. During 25 years on The Washington Post spanning the Truman, Eisenhower and Kennedy eras, McCarthyism and the Vietnam War, Estabrook wrote editorials and visited 70 countries as a foreign correspondent. He covered world leaders from Khrushchev, De Gaulle, Adenauer, and Macmillan to Chiang Kai-shek, Nehru, and U Thant. In this telling work, Estabrook also divulges the perils and pleasures he experienced during his 34-year love affair with a country weekly in northwest Connecticut, The Lakeville Journal. The book ends with a critical look at journalism and the values that are endangered by the greed that threatens a once-noble profession.
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Estabrook, Robert Harley was born on October 16, 1918 in Dayton, Ohio, United States. Son of Charles and Christianne M. (Harley) Estabrook.
AB, Northwestern University, 1939; postgraduate, American Press Institute, Columbia, 1947; Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Colby College, 1972.
City editor, Emmet County Graphic, Harbor Springs, Michigan, 1936; editor, Daily Northwestern, Northwestern University, 1938-1939; reporter, Cedar Rapids (Iowa) Gazette, 1939-1940; editorial writer, Cedar Rapids (Iowa) Gazette, 1940-1942; editorial writer, Washington Post, 1946-1953; editor editorial page, Washington Post, 1953-1961; correspondent, Washington Post, London, 1961-1962; chief foreign correspondent, Washington Post, London, 1962-1965; United Nations and Canada correspondent, Washington Post, London, 1966-1971; editor, public, Lakeville (Connecticut) Journal, 1971-1986; public emeritus, consultant, Lakeville (Connecticut) Journal, since 1987. Lecturer journalism U. Maryland., 1948-1949. India Editor Exchange Program, 1987.
(Never Dull chronicles the author Robert Estabrook's expan...)
Served from private to captain Army of the United States, 1942-1946. In charge Army newspaper and radio station 1945, Brazil. Member National Conference Editorial Writers (founder, life member president 1951), Council Foreign Relations, Connecticut Council on Freedom of Information (chairman 1981-1982, Stephen Collins award, 1989), New England Press Association (president 1983), Rotary Club, Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Delta Chi (award for best editorial1954), Deadline Club (Pulitzer Prize juror 1988, 89, award for United Nations correspondent 1969, Golden Quill award for best editorial 1973, 78, Herbert Brucker award 1977), Delta Tau Delta.
Married Mary Lou Stewart, December 22, 1942. Children: John Stewart, James Ross, David Morse, Margaret Harley.