This is a a guest post from my super-cool Dad. In fact, it’s his second post here on TJCC. Check out his review of fascinating memoir Been Everywhere…Got Nowhere, authored by his good friend and Associated Press reporter, who has since passed, Hugh Mulligan. As a journalist, Mulligan had an amazing series of assignments and interviews, with everyone from Bob Hope to The Shah of Iran. You can read more about his adventures below.
Hugh A. Mulligan spent 49 years with the Associated Press, reporting from 146 countries.
In his book: Been Everywhere … Got Nowhere Mulligan has packaged an armchair tour of these fascinating stories, humorous anecdotes, many adventures, and some of his most memorable journeys (and a few that make you wonder.)
Among many major assignments, he covered President Kennedy’s visit to Ireland, President Nixon’s trips to China and Russia, President Reagan’s horseback interview with the Queen of England, conclaves that elected three Popes, 28 of Pope John Paul II’s journeys on every continent, the rise and fall of the Berlin Wall, John Glenn’s first orbital flight and his return to space as a senior citizen, the royal wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana . . . and then Princess Diana’s funeral.
As a war correspondent, Mulligan covered two Arab-Israeli wars, conflicts in Ulster, Cyprus, Biafra, Angola and Beirut.. He spent three years in Vietnam and a year in Cambodia. He was the only American correspondent to cross the Suez Canal with Gen. Sharon’s tanks in the Yom Kippur War (about which he authored another book: “Lightning Out of Israel: The Six Day War in the Middle East.”)
In Vietnam, Mulligan covered U.S military and South Vietnamese Army combat operations in every province from the Delta to the DMZ. He flew with a Jolly Green Giants crew to rescue a Navy carrier pilot shot down over Vinh in North Vietnam and was later in Hanoi for the release of U.S. prisoners. His book, “No Place to Die: the Agony of Vietnam,” identified him as the “Ernie Pyle” of the Vietnam war.
He went to the N
orth Pole on a Navy blimp, rode the cab of an 18-wheel tractor trailer up the Alcan Highway in the dead of winter, went on a camel patrol with the Trucial Oman Scouts, and on an elephant patrol with highland tribesmen in Vietnam, covered a Nudist Convention (!) on the Riviera, accompanied Louis Armstrong on one-night stands, and carried a spear in the Metropolitan Opera.
Mulligan has had one-on-one interviews with, among others, Bob Hope, Margaret Thatcher, John Glenn, Gen. Westmoreland, Marilyn Monroe, Casey Stengel, John Cardinal O’Connor, Joe DiMaggio, Tennessee Williams, John Steinbeck, The Shah of Iran, James Jones, Brendan Behan and Vladimir Nabokov and hero cop Frank Serpico. …
In Been Everywhere…Got Nowhere Mulligan takes you with him on these exciting trips and many others writing oftentimes humorously with the clear, concise language of a trained journalist.
What gives the excursion special flavor are his personal reminiscences, linking the trips with famous celebrities.
These true tales will make you experience life around the world, and to know a little bit about a lot of people and places after you have read the book.
Forget the Travel Channel: Curl up! You can also check out more about Mulligan’s experiences in an interview with him here.
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Book Review: Been Everywhere…Got Nowhere
by Laura on 06/05/2010 · 0 comments
This is a a guest post from my super-cool Dad. In fact, it’s his second post here on TJCC. Check out his review of fascinating memoir Been Everywhere…Got Nowhere, authored by his good friend and Associated Press reporter, who has since passed, Hugh Mulligan. As a journalist, Mulligan had an amazing series of assignments and interviews, with everyone from Bob Hope to The Shah of Iran. You can read more about his adventures below.
Hugh A. Mulligan spent 49 years with the Associated Press, reporting from 146 countries.
In his book: Been Everywhere … Got Nowhere Mulligan has packaged an armchair tour of these fascinating stories, humorous anecdotes, many adventures, and some of his most memorable journeys (and a few that make you wonder.)
Among many major assignments, he covered President Kennedy’s visit to Ireland, President Nixon’s trips to China and Russia, President Reagan’s horseback interview with the Queen of England, conclaves that elected three Popes, 28 of Pope John Paul II’s journeys on every continent, the rise and fall of the Berlin Wall, John Glenn’s first orbital flight and his return to space as a senior citizen, the royal wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana . . . and then Princess Diana’s funeral.
As a war correspondent, Mulligan covered two Arab-Israeli wars, conflicts in Ulster, Cyprus, Biafra, Angola and Beirut.. He spent three years in Vietnam and a year in Cambodia. He was the only American correspondent to cross the Suez Canal with Gen. Sharon’s tanks in the Yom Kippur War (about which he authored another book: “Lightning Out of Israel: The Six Day War in the Middle East.”)
In Vietnam, Mulligan covered U.S military and South Vietnamese Army combat operations in every province from the Delta to the DMZ. He flew with a Jolly Green Giants crew to rescue a Navy carrier pilot shot down over Vinh in North Vietnam and was later in Hanoi for the release of U.S. prisoners. His book, “No Place to Die: the Agony of Vietnam,” identified him as the “Ernie Pyle” of the Vietnam war.
He went to the N
orth Pole on a Navy blimp, rode the cab of an 18-wheel tractor trailer up the Alcan Highway in the dead of winter, went on a camel patrol with the Trucial Oman Scouts, and on an elephant patrol with highland tribesmen in Vietnam, covered a Nudist Convention (!) on the Riviera, accompanied Louis Armstrong on one-night stands, and carried a spear in the Metropolitan Opera.
Mulligan has had one-on-one interviews with, among others, Bob Hope, Margaret Thatcher, John Glenn, Gen. Westmoreland, Marilyn Monroe, Casey Stengel, John Cardinal O’Connor, Joe DiMaggio, Tennessee Williams, John Steinbeck, The Shah of Iran, James Jones, Brendan Behan and Vladimir Nabokov and hero cop Frank Serpico. …
In Been Everywhere…Got Nowhere Mulligan takes you with him on these exciting trips and many others writing oftentimes humorously with the clear, concise language of a trained journalist.
What gives the excursion special flavor are his personal reminiscences, linking the trips with famous celebrities.
These true tales will make you experience life around the world, and to know a little bit about a lot of people and places after you have read the book.
Forget the Travel Channel: Curl up! You can also check out more about Mulligan’s experiences in an interview with him here.
**
Do you have a favorite travel book – you know, the one that truly “takes” you on the journey with the writer? Share away!
If you liked this post, please subscribe to the RSS feed
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