2013 Audie Award Finalist, Biography/Memoir. Renowned news anchor Walter Cronkite was known as "the most trusted man in America." From his roots in Missouri and Texas through the Great Depression; to covering WWII from overseas; and on to CBS, where he covered elections, the space program, Vietnam, and the first televised broadcasts of the Olympic Games before anchoring the nightly news; Brinkley brings this American icon into focus as never before.