Rather Outspoken: My Life in the News Dan Rather With Digby Diehl For half a century, Dan Rather has covered the major news stories of our times: the civil rights movement, the assassination of JFK, Vietnam, Watergate, 9-11, Iraq, Afghanistan, Abu Gharib. For 24 of those years, he was the network "face" of TV journalism as the anchor of the CBS Evening News. […] Now for the first time, Dan tells the real story of his final months at CBS, including his removal from the anchor chair in the wake of the controversy surrounding the story of George W. Bush and the Texas Air National Guard […] In Rather Outspoken, Dan looks back over his entire career, from his boyhood in Houston, Texas, through his coverage of every US president since Eisenhower, to his successful return to investigative reporting on Dan Rather Reports for Mark Cuban. Since leaving CBS, he has been engaged full-time in the kind of hard-hitting journalism pioneered by his boyhood idol – Edward Morrow - and he has the Emmys to prove it… with absolutely no plans to retire, Dan has already delved into such major stories for HDNet as money laundering by Lloyds TSB for Iranian government […] Along the way, he sounds an urgent call for more programs like his own – mor investigative journalists and mor in-depth reporting, even in the face of what he calls the "corporatization, politicization, and trivialization" of the news […] Dan Rather is an award winning journalist who anchored CBS Evening News for decades. He is one of America's most decorated news journalists of all time.