"Growing up in Halifax, Nova Scotia, during World War II, MacNeil felt as though nothing of significance ever happened in Canada; Canada seemed too small, too parochial for his ambitions. Reared on his mother's obsession with all things English, when he moved to Britain in his mid-twenties he expected to find himself adopted by a new country that was at once familiar and foreign. But his career led him down a different path. Receiving a call from NBC to fill in as their London correspondent, he began reporting for an American audience. By the early sixties, NBC convinced him to come to the United States, where he continued his broadcasts and eventually founded the highly acclaimed MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour at PBS." "In these years Robert MacNeil was witness to many of the events that shaped the last century - the erection of the Berlin Wall, Kennedy's election and assassination, the Cuban Missile Crisis, Watergate - and finally the events of September 11, 2001. As a trenchant and respected newsman, he reported world issues to the American public not only from an American perspective, but with that of the Canadian values which informed his youth. He also weighed the issue of citizenship: To which country did he really belong? After living in the United States for more than thirty years, MacNeil returned to his country of birth in the mid 1990s and he found much changed - multiculturalism and diversity had caused Canadian culture to blossom in his absence."--BOOK JACKET. Distributed by Syndetic Solutions, Inc.