More Riffs, Rants, and Raves : Communications and Media Studies - William O'Shaughnessy

More Riffs, Rants, and Raves

By: William O'Shaughnessy

Hardcover | 15 April 2004

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Bill O'Shaughnessy's back. Here's the third big book of interviews, editorials, essays, commentaries, and observations, and just plain good talk from an authentic American voice.From the "bully pulpit" of his radio stations, O'Shaughnessy's in the middle of it all-politics, local and national; culture, high and low and in-between; the media; and, above all, the rich flow of ideas and opinion that from what the Wall Street Journal calls "the quintessential community station in America."For this compelling and fascinating collection, O'Shaughnessy gathers interviews with everyone from Tony Bennett on the singer's art to Ed Koch on the art of politics. Essays and talks from luminaries ranging from Henry Kissinger to Larry King, Rudolph Giuliani to Tim Russert and Dan Rather. There are moving pieces on the impact of September 11, vivid sketches of movers and shakers, and provocative, deeply felt calls for protecting freedoms of the First Amendment. And Mario Cuomo's moving thoughts on how to restore justice and wisdom to America's political culture.From color sketches of local pols to intimate conversations with great writers and artists, Again! Again! Is an endlessly fascinating portrait our time and place-marked as always by Bill O'Shaughnessy's intelligence, insight, and eloquence."Bill O'Shaughnessy's editorials make his New York TV counterparts look like so much mish-mash." -The New York Times
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"Many trees in Canada were cut down for the pulp mills to produce this book. There may very well be more names packed between the hard covers than are listed in the Manhattan White Pages." -The Journal News "His conversations with New York-born writers Mary Higgins Clark and Pete Hamill will delight fans." -Catholic New York "The book is full of the din of the fray, both past and present, and it often samples from what seems like the forgotten zeitgeist of some distant generation, some strange time when commentators were respectful toward subjects they didn't agree with and criticized ideas, not people." -Litchfield Country Times "It's a treasure trove of interviews, editorials, essays, commentaries and obserbations, covering 30 years." -- -Ann LaFarge Litchfield Enquirer

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