In more than five decades as a reporter editor and publisher Peter Osnos has had an especially good view of momentous events and relationships with some of the most influential personalities of our time.As a young journalist for I.F. Stones Weekly one of the leading publications of the turbulent 1960s and in 18 years at The Washington Post he covered the war in Vietnam and Cambodia the Soviet Union at the height of Kremlin power Washington D.C. as National Editor Swinging London in the 60s and Thatchers Britain in the 1980s.At Random House and the company he founded PublicAffairs he was responsible for books by four presidents Carter Clinton Obama and Trump celebrated Washington figures including Robert McNamara House Speaker Tip ONeill and Vernon Jordan first ladies Rosalynn Carter and Nancy Reagan the billionaire George Soros basketball superstars Kareem Abdul Jabbar and Magic Johnson legendary spies political dissidents and the writers Molly Ivins and Peggy Noonan among many others.In this unusually wideranging memoir Osnos uses a reporters skills to portray historic events and encounters beginning with his parents extraordinary World War II experiences escaping Europe to India where he was born to the present day.