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Irving R. Levine

American journalist (1922–2009)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 26, 2025
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Source-derived summary

Irving Raskin Levine was an American journalist and longtime correspondent for NBC News. During his 45-year career, Levine reported from more than two dozen countries. He was the first American television correspondent to be accredited in the Soviet Union. He wrote three non-fiction books on life in the USSR, each of which became a bestseller.

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“Irving R. Levine” enters the record as american journalist (1922–2009). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Irving, Levine and American can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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“Irving R. Levine” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Irving, Levine and American provides the most credible route into that argument.

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This entry incorporates text from “Irving R. Levine” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.