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Preserving History Through Books and Film

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 Americas.

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 2, 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.

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

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

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

Coming Soon: The Tiffany Network Builder: Gold Standard, Last Time in Havana, The Chesters.

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