More Riffs, Rants, and Raves

by William O'Shaughnessy

Overview

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 pulpitof 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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780823223367
Publisher:	Fordham University Press
Publication date:	04/15/2004
Series:	Communications and Media Studies , #10
Edition description:	1
Pages:	781
Product dimensions:	6.50(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

William O'Shaughnessy is owner and President of Whitney Radio, parent company for WVOX and WRTN in Westchester County, NY. Vox Populi is preceded by three successful books: More Riffs, Rants, and Raves, It All Comes Back to me Now, and Airwaves.

What People are Saying About This

Dan Rather

Bill O'Shaughnessy's new book is chock full of good writing, good humor ... and wisdom. What a terrific read!
—CBS News

George H.W. Bush

I know I will enjoy this book. I have already savored the warm references to a former president. I was also touched by what Mario Cuomo said about me on p. 451.
—

David Hinckley

He has an easy writing style that still conveys a real passion for matters like the First Amendment and a genuine appreciation for what we can learn from folks like Mario Cuomo and Jimmy Breslin. In fact, that's the most pervasive message here. If we want a better world, O'Shaughnessy suggests, we should look to build on ideas and things that are working well already.
—critic-at-large, N.Y. Daily News

Mario M. Cuomo

His personal commentaries, written with casually elegant language, make you wish the whole country was hearing and reading his work. He is a journalist, commentator, connoisseur, strong political presence and forceful advocate of great causes.
—Governor

John Cameron Swayze

The poet Keats feared his name would be writ on water. I've often thought of that sentiment during the years I've been in broadcasting. As Bill O'Shaughnessy so nicely points out, there's certain impermanence to what we do. Our words are sent shivering out into the ether at the speed of light and are lost. Be it a report on a desperate life-and-death drama, a cogent idea, a politician's oration, or a felicitous turn of phrase, they all exist only for the millisecond they are heard and than vanish. Except, when someone of discriminating intellect, conviction, and enterprise takes it upon themselves to preserve for the rest of us some of what is truly important. In this case, it was Bill O'Shaughnessy. Not only did he save this anthology of word and thought that matters, but he enriched it with his own observations. Hooray!
—commentator,CBS Radio

Editorial Reviews

His conversations with New York-born writers Mary Higgins Clark and Pete Hamill will delight fans.

Catholic New York

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

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

From the Publisher

It's a treasure trove of interviews, editorials, essays, commentaries and obserbations, covering 30 years.

Litchfield Enquirer - Ann LaFarge