Book Description
Provides a collection of more than fifty of the best of "Sixty Minutes" commentator Andy Rooney's award-winning essays on the current American political, economic, and social scene.
Author : Andrew A. Rooney
Publisher : Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 50,19 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780020102014
Provides a collection of more than fifty of the best of "Sixty Minutes" commentator Andy Rooney's award-winning essays on the current American political, economic, and social scene.
Author : Andrew A. Rooney
Publisher : BBS Publishing Corporation
Page : 796 pages
File Size : 49,15 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780883657652
This collection includes: A Few Minutes with Andy Rooney, And More by Andy Rooney, and Pieces of My Mind. America's favorite commentator and humorist, explores the joys and frustrations of everyday life. Here are more than 250 essays taken from the best of his television special, 60 Minutes appearances, and nationally syndicated newspaper column.
Author : Andy Rooney
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,41 MB
Release : 2009-04-30
Category : Humor
ISBN : 078674622X
Andy Rooney is a classic chronicler of America and her foibles. Over more than six decades of intrepid reporting and elegant essays, Rooney has told it to us straight and without a hint of sugar coating, but with more than a grain of truth and humor. Andy Rooney: 60 Years of Wisdom and Wit brings together the best of more than a half-century of work (including long-out-of-print pieces from Rooney's early years) in an unforgettable celebration of one of America's funniest men. With selections from his beginnings as a correspondent for The Stars and Stripes during WWII to his arrival at CBS to his more than thirty-year stint on 60 Minutes, this book is a must-have for any Rooney fan.
Author : Andy Rooney
Publisher : Public Affairs
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 50,6 MB
Release : 2000-10-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781586480103
The author recounts his experiences as a young reporter to "Stars and Stripes," the American forces' daily newspaper in Europe, including his personal account of the liberation and entry into Buchenwald.
Author : Andy Rooney
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 27,57 MB
Release : 2007-03-31
Category : Humor
ISBN : 158648530X
Every Sunday evening, millions of viewers tune in to 60 Minutes to hear Andy Rooney riff on everything from coffee percolators to the state of the union. Millions more read his weekly newspaper column. Why? Because Rooney tells it like it is. But Rooney fans have never seen him quite like this. Andy Rooney is plain frustrated by what's going on in America and the world. Why can't Americans -- let alone our president -- speak English anymore? How do we expect to fight a terrorist enemy that we can't even locate? And when did capitalism go so terribly wrong? This book isn't all heady stuff, though. Readers will also get the familiar -- and hysterical -- Rooney gripes about everyday foibles, such as the impossibility of physically locating your driver's registration, of purchasing a genuinely healthy breakfast cereal, or of enjoying a college reunion -- unless everyone ends up in their nighties, that is. PublicAffairs is pleased to present its fifth collaboration with Andy Rooney. Loyal Rooney fans and anyone who enjoys a good laugh at life's absurdities will be thrilled to add it to the bookshelf during the holidays.
Author : Andy Rooney
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 45,57 MB
Release : 2007-10-09
Category : Humor
ISBN : 1586486179
"Andy Rooney's Sunday evening observations on 60 Minutes are an American institution, shaping the way people see everything from coffee percolators to the state of the nation."
Author : Andy Rooney
Publisher : Random House
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 20,37 MB
Release : 2012-07-04
Category : Humor
ISBN : 0307822214
Andy Rooney's syndicated newspaper columns and cantankerous "60 Minutes" essays have made him one of the best known curmudgeons in America. Rooney writes about almost everything, boasting in the introduction to Not That You Asked . . . : "There's something in this book that will irritate almost everyone." Andy Rooney once again proves why he is one of America’s favorite curmudgeons. Writing at the top of his form, Rooney covers a plethora of subjects, from getting rid of leftovers to the worst job in the world, from travel tips for the travel industry to the best hotel room he ever had. Andy Rooney has an opinion on everything, and in his inimitably irreverent and crotchety style he voices here those things we’ve always wanted to say but never thought we could get away with. You’ll find yourself smiling and frowning and involuntarily bobbing your head in agreement. Praise for Not That You Asked . . . “As television watchers know, Andrew A. Rooney is a very funny fellow. He can be even funnier in print, as Not That You Asked . . . amply demonstrates.”—The Associated Press “The greatest thing about Andy is that he makes everyone uncomfortable—especially me.”—Don Hewitt, Executive Producer, 60 Minutes “The best of Rooney’s collections of columns so far . . . irreverent and warmhearted, thoughtful and provocative.”—The Orlando Sentinel
Author : Timothy M. Gay
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 42,55 MB
Release : 2013-05-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0451417151
“A book every modern journalist—and citizen—should read.”—Tom Brokaw, Author of The Greatest Generation In February 1943, a group of journalists—including a young wire service correspondent named Walter Cronkite and cub reporter Andy Rooney—clamored to fly along on a bombing raid over Nazi Germany. Seven of the sixty-four bombers that attacked a U-boat base that day never made it back to England. A fellow survivor, Homer Bigart of the New York Herald Tribune, asked Cronkite if he’d thought through a lede. “I think I’m going to say,” mused Cronkite, “that I’ve just returned from an assignment to hell.” Assignment to Hell tells the powerful and poignant story of the war against Hitler through the eyes of five intrepid reporters. Cronkite crashed into Holland on a glider with U.S. paratroopers. Rooney dodged mortar shells as he raced across the Rhine at Remagen. Behind enemy lines in Sicily, Bigart jumped into an amphibious commando raid that nearly ended in disaster. The New Yorker’s A. J. Liebling ducked sniper fire as Allied troops liberated his beloved Paris. The Associated Press’s Hal Boyle barely escaped SS storm troopers as he uncovered the massacre of U.S. soldiers during the Battle of the Bulge. This book serves as a stirring tribute to five of World War II’s greatest correspondents and to the brave men and women who fought on the front lines against fascism—their generation’s “assignment to hell.”
Author : Andy Rooney
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 39,6 MB
Release : 2007-10-09
Category : Humor
ISBN : 1586486160
Andy Rooney has been at it for twenty-five years. It's time to celebrate. So here's the ultimate gift for every Rooney fan: an illustrated collection of Rooney's very best pieces from a quarter centur
Author : Andy Rooney
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 14,44 MB
Release : 1999-11-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781891620348
This is an assemblage of Rooney's innumerable and thoughtfully (mostly) sassy (always) letters responding to government and business folk, viewers of 60 Minutes, organizations asking him for a speaking engagement, lawyers, friends, those interested in religious matters, and others. And the letters are arranged into sections according to the type of recipient. Letters that prompted Mr. Rooney's replies are not listed (though Rooney's style allows one to easily understand the original letter's gist). No notes or index, but there seems little need for either. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR