Covering the Cold War and Other Shadows in the Land of the Midnight Sun

Harry Heintzen

sept 2010 · Author House

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A young reporter wants so badly to be a foreign correspondent that he leaves his job in the U.S. and heads for Scandinavia to try his luck. He encounters a weird, white world and quickly finds himself covering the  Cold War between Finland and the Soviet Union, for which he is denounced in Pravda.  He finds himself writing for a journalistic giant, The New York Herald-Tribune, but which pays a pittance for his stories.  He covers events in Sweden, Finland, Norway and Denmark, meeting such people as a Nobel Peace Prize winner, a Norwegian war hero, a singer/movie  actress, a Prime Minister and a host of other interesting characters. He also meets and marries the girl of his dreams.  Then, just as his money is about to run out, he unexpectedly wins a prestigious and lucrative journalism award that brings him back to the U. S. and recognition as a full-ledged foreign correspondent. Told in letters and rememberances, it  is a story of suceeding against the odds in the Land of the Midnight Sun.

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Harry Heintzen has been a newspaper reporter, a foreign correspondent, a Foreign Service Officer in Africa, Chief of the Voice of America broadcasting to Africa and the initiator and director of a VOA program that brought some 7000 foreign journalists to the U.S. for study and training at universities and the VOA. He lives with his wife in Washington, D.C.