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Grapevine Publications LLC presents the Americans Forgotten: Shade to Shine series, documenting the extraordinary career of Edmund A. Chester — American journalist, CBS executive, and creator of La Cadena de las Américas.

Book 1, The Kentucky Pan American: The Early Years, is now available on Amazon, chronicling Edmund’s journey from Kentucky journalist to Associated Press correspondent in Latin America. From 1933 to 1940, he dodged bullets in revolutionary Cuba, covered the 1939 earthquake in Chile, interviewed fifteen presidents across nineteen countries, and built the Associated Press Latin American network.

The Reporter’s Passports: Through His Eyes is the companion photo book to Book 1, featuring over 160 archival photographs from his travels throughout the Americas.

Book 3, La Cadena: Voices That Linked the Americas, tells the story of CBS’s hemispheric radio network linking 122 stations across twenty-one nations during World War II — now available on Amazon.

Book 4, The Tiffany Network Builder: The Gold Standard, follows Edmund into the newsroom he built at CBS. From the outbreak of the Korean War through the crises that tested CBS’s newsroom under fire, this volume reveals the man behind Edward R. Murrow’s Boys, the CBS Director of News whose own name history left out — now available on Amazon.

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The Americans Forgotten: Shade to Shine Series

1. The Kentucky Pan American: The Early Years
2. The Reporter’s Passports: Through His Eyes (companion photo book)
3. La Cadena: Voices That Linked the Americas
4. The Tiffany Network Builder: The Gold Standard
5. Last Time in Havana (coming soon)
6. The Chesters (coming soon)

The Kentucky Pan American: The Early Years https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GL1GBR94

The Reporter’s Passports: Through His Eyes https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GR9PWRY8

La Cadena: Voices That Linked the Americas https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H1S4SDQT

Watch the official book trailer: https://youtu.be/BgDTixkERJo

The Tiffany Network Builder: The Gold Standard: https://www.amazon.com/Tiffany-Network-Builder-Americans-Forgotten/dp/B0HFD6D6NH

Scan QR code to watch the historical film of the busy Havana Harbor, or go to Grapevine Publications LLC on YouTube.