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Here is a classic of our media age, out of print for nearly a decade, and now reissued for a new generation of readers and media-watchers. Friendly examines his twelve-year collaboration with Edward R. Murrow, as they documented the deceptions of Senator Joseph McCarthy, the burgeoning civil rights struggle, domestic discord over the Vietnam War, and other upheavals convulsing America. He also describes his startling resignation in 1966, over CBS's refusal to air Senate hearings on Vietnam. Friendly predicted the conquest of mainstream media by sensationalism, the creation of a public broadcasting network, and the revolution that satellite communications would unleash in news gathering. Part candid memoir, part intense analysis of television's role in society, Due to Circumstances Beyond Our Control...is even more relevant in our media-saturated age than when it first appeared in 1967.