Download or read book Baldwin of The Times written by Robert B. Davies and published by US Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hanson W. Baldwin, a New York Times's editor for almost forty years, was one of America's best-known military writers and analysts of World War II and the Vietnam War. Among his memorable scoops were the loss of three American cruisers at the battle of Savo Island, the real story behind the U-2 spy incident, and the clustering of Soviet ICBMs in 1962. His dispatches from Guadalcanal and the Western Pacific won him a Pulitzer Prize in 1943. This biography of the 1924 graduate of the United States Naval Academy is the first to be written of the formidable journalist whose writings ring true today. Opposed to a national policy that could result in human devastation, he, nevertheless, favored a strong defense, but warned against an arms buildup that would alarm other nations and bankrupt America.