The Evening News with Walter Cronkite is a coming-of-age novel by Joshua Resnek, published as a Kindle title in 2011.
The story follows Jack Krivitsky from 1967 to 1971, a period in which the country was transformed by conflict and upheaval. Through the eyes of its protagonist, the novel captures a generation navigating change, uncertainty, and the search for identity.
Coming of Age in a Changing Country
Jack's journey moves from Boston's North Shore to college in Iowa and then to Washington, D.C. The years encompass generational conflict, political protest, new freedoms, and encounters with national power, all observed through a young man's changing sense of himself and the country around him.
The title places Walter Cronkite's evening broadcast at the edge of that experience: a shared national frame for events that quickly became personal. Resnek brings a journalist's attention to the period while keeping the story centered on character and memory.
Published Novel and Separate Manuscript
A separate memoir manuscript, Nixon Told Me To Cut My Hair, appears revised or retitled from related material, but its exact relationship to this published novel has not been confirmed. Publication details for the manuscript have not been announced. Read the carefully attributed Washington recollections.
— Joshua Resnek