
In the Long Run
It''s 2008. Jim Axelrod—once among the most watched correspondents on network news and the first television reporter to broadcast from Saddam International Airport in 2003—is covering the final stages of the race for the Democratic presidential nomination. He''s forty-five years old and thirty pounds overweight. He''s drinking too much, sleeping too little, and scarcely seeing his family. He''s ju...
It''s 2008. Jim Axelrod—once among the most watched correspondents on network news and the first television reporter to broadcast from Saddam International Airport in 2003—is covering the final stages of the race for the Democratic presidential nomination. He''s forty-five years old and thirty pounds overweight. He''s drinking too much, sleeping too little, and scarcely seeing his family. He''s ju...