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 You're Wrong and You're Ugly: Radio's Bad Boy Tells It Like It Is (And It Ain't Always Pretty)
Author: Sid Rsoengerg
You're Wrong and You're Ugly takes readers on an incredible journey whether or not they're a huge sports fan. Rosenberg is an equal-opportunity offender-Starlets, Hollywood hunks, and the next big thing in entertainment have all felt the heat of Rosenberg's sharp barbs. Rosenberg shares all the stories listeners never got to hear when the microphones were turned off, and when he starts talking about the reasons he got fired from some of his jobs, Rosenberg leaves nobody unscathed.
He calls out athletes and other self-important people in every profession. He's loud. He's crude. He may be tasteless at time, but through it all you'll find yourself agreeing with his opinionated takes more than you thought. He's got a rough (and funny) way of getting his points across, and once you read what he has to say, you'll agree with the millions of fans who have found themselves laughing hysterically at Rosenberg's insights. |
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 The Time of our Lives
Author: Tom Brokaw
Tom Brokaw, known and beloved for his landmark work in American journalism and for the New York Times bestsellers The Greatest Generation and Boom!, now turns his attention to the challenges that face America in the new millennium, to offer reflections on how we can restore America's greatness.
"What happened to the America I thought I knew?" Brokaw writes. "Have we simply wandered off course, but only temporarily? Or have we allowed ourselves to be so divided that we're easy prey for hijackers who could steer us onto a path to a crash landing?... I do have some thoughts, original and inspired by others, for our journey into the heart of a new century."
Rooted in the values, lessons, and verities of generations past and of his South Dakota upbringing, Brokaw weaves together inspiring stories of Americans who are making a difference and personal stories from his own family history, to engage us in a conversation about our country and to offer ideas for how we can revitalize the promise of the American Dream.
Inviting us to foster a rebirth of family, community, and civic engagement as profound as the one that won World War II, built our postwar prosperity, and ushered in the Civil Rights era, Brokaw traces the exciting, unnerving changes in modern life?in values, education, public service, housing, the Internet, and more?that have transformed our society in the decades since the age of thrift in which he was raised. Offering ideas from Americans who are change agents in their communities, in The Time of Our Lives, Brokaw gives us, a wise, honest, and wide-ranging book, a nourishing vision of hopefulness in an age of dimished expectations. |
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 Conservative Victory: Defeating Obama's Radical Agenda
Author: Sean Hannity
Barack Obama and his radical team of self-professed socialists, fringe activists, and others are trying to remake the American way of life. They have used their new Democratic majority to launch an alarming assault on our capitalist system?while abandoning the war on terror, undermining our national security, and weakening our position in the eyes of our enemies. The "candidate of change" is threatening to change our country irreparably, and for the worse?if we don't act to stop him now.
Sean Hannity has been sounding the alarms about Obama and his agenda from the start. Now?in his first new book in six years?he issues a stirring call to action. Hannity surveys all the major Obama players?from the president's affiliation with radical theology to his advisers' history of Marxist activism, repression of the media, support for leftist dictators, and worse. He exposes their resulting campaign to dismantle the American free-market system and forfeit our national sovereignty. But he draws on the examples of Ronald Reagan and the GOP's Contract with America to show how conservatives can unite behind this country's most cherished principles and act now to get America back on the right track?while we still can.
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 Liberty and Tyranny
Author: Mark Levin
When nationally syndicated radio host Mark R. Levin?s Liberty and Tyranny appeared in the early months of the Obama presidency, Americans responded by making his clarion call for a new era in conservatism a #1 New York Times bestseller for an astounding twelve weeks. As provocative, well-reasoned, robust, and informed as his on-air commentary, with his love of our country and the legacy of our Founding Fathers reflected on every page, Levin?s galvanizing narrative provides a philosophical, historical, and practical framework for revitalizing the conservative vision and ensuring the preservation of American society.
In the face of the modern liberal assault on Constitution-based values, an attack that has resulted in a federal government that is a massive, unaccountable conglomerate, the time for reinforcing the intellectual and practical case for conservatism is now. In a series of powerful essays, Levin lays out how conservatives can counter the tyrannical liberal corrosion that has filtered into every timely issue affecting our daily lives, from the economy to health care, global warming to immigration, and more. |
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 Steve Jobs
Author: Walter Isaacson
Based on more than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over two years?as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues?Walter Isaacson has written a riveting story of the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, and digital publishing.
At a time when America is seeking ways to sustain its innovative edge, and when societies around the world are trying to build digital-age economies, Jobs stands as the ultimate icon of inventiveness and applied imagination. He knew that the best way to create value in the twenty-first century was to connect creativity with technology. He built a company where leaps of the imagination were combined with remarkable feats of engineering.
Although Jobs cooperated with this book, he asked for no control over what was written nor even the right to read it before it was published. He put nothing off-limits. He encouraged the people he knew to speak honestly. And Jobs speaks candidly, sometimes brutally so, about the people he worked with and competed against. His friends, foes, and colleagues provide an unvarnished view of the passions, perfectionism, obsessions, artistry, devilry, and compulsion for control that shaped his approach to business and the innovative products that resulted.
Driven by demons, Jobs could drive those around him to fury and despair. But his personality and products were interrelated, just as Apple?s hardware and software tended to be, as if part of an integrated system. His tale is instructive and cautionary, filled with lessons about innovation, character, leadership, and values.
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 West by West: My Charmed, Tormented Life
Author: Jerry West and Jonathan Coleman
He is one of basketball's towering figures: "Mr. Clutch," who mesmerized his opponents and fans. The coach who began the Lakers' resurgence in the 1970s. The general manager who helped bring "Showtime" to Los Angeles, creating a championship-winning force that continues to this day.
Now, for the first time, the legendary Jerry West tells his story-from his tough childhood in West Virginia, to his unbelievable college success at West Virginia University, his 40-year career with the Los Angeles Lakers, and his relationships with NBA legends like Bill Russell, Wilt Chamberlain, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Magic Johnson, Shaquille O'Neal, and Kobe Bryant. Unsparing in its self-assessment and honesty, WEST BY WEST is far more than a sports memoir: it is a profound confession and a magnificent inspiration. |
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 When the Garden was Eden- Clyde, The Captain, Dollar Bill, and the Glory Days of the New York Knicks
Author: Harvey Araton
The late 1960s and early 1970s, in New York City and America at large, were years marked by political tumult, social unrest?and the best professional basketball ever played. Paradise, for better or worse, was a hardwood court in Midtown Manhattan.
When the Garden Was Eden is the definitive account of how the New York Knickerbockers won their first and only championships, and in the process provided the nation no small escape from the Vietnam War, the tragedy at Kent State, and the last vestiges of Jim Crow. The Knicks were more than a team; they were a symbol of harmony, the sublimation of individual personalities for the greater collective good.
No one is better suited to revive the old chants of "Dee-fense!" that rocked Madison Square Garden or the joy that radiated courtside than Harvey Araton, who has followed the Knicks, old and new, for decades?first as a teenage fan, then as a young sports reporter with the New York Post, and now as a writer and columnist for the New York Times. Araton has traveled to the Louisiana home of the Captain, Willis Reed (after writing a column years earlier that led to his abrupt firing as the Knicks' short-lived coach); he has strolled the lush gardens of Walt "Clyde" Frazier's St. Croix oasis; discussed the politics of that turbulent era with Senator Bill Bradley; toured Baltimore's church basement basketball leagues with Black Jesus himself, Earl "the Pearl" Monroe; played memory games with Jerry "the Brain" Lucas; explored the Tao of basketball with Phil "Action" Jackson; and sat through eulogies for Dave DeBusschere, the lunch-bucket, 23-year-old player-coach lured from Detroit, and Red Holzman, the scrappy Jewish guard who became a coaching legend. |
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 Sports Talk: The Personalities Behind the Personalities
Author: BROADCASTER MARKETING SERVICES
A new book with interviews of many of the top personalities in sports talk radio is now available for ordering online. "Sports Talk: The Personalities Behind the Personalities" was written by BROADCASTER MARKETING SERVICES President DAVID BRODY with BILL ROGAN of KNUS-A/DENVER and DUSTIN RHOADES of WSCR-A/CHICAGO and includes interviews with 18 national and local radio sportscasters. CBS RADIO DALLAS' BRUCE GILBERT penned the foreword for the book, which gives insight into the hosts' careers and offers advice for aspiring sportscasters.
Among the interview subkects are ESPN's COLIN COWHERD and SCOTT VAN PELT, SIRIUS XM's SCOTT FERRALL, NFL NETWORK's JASON SMITH, GREATER MEDIA Sports WPEN-A-F (97.5 THE FANATIC)/PHILADELPHIA's TONY BRUNO, CBS RADIO Sports WFAN-A/NEW YORK's JOE BENIGNO, FOX SPORTS RADIO's PETROS PAPADAKIS and MATT "MONEY" SMITH, LINCOLN FINANCIAL MEDIA Sports WQXI-A (790 THE ZONE)/ATLANTA's DOUG and RYAN STEWART ("2 LIVE STEWS"), CLEAR CHANNEL Sports WDAE-A/TAMPA morning man DAN SILEO, CBS RADIO Sports WIP-A/PHILADELPHIA commentator and EAGLES sideline reporter/pre- and post-game host HOWARD ESKIN, YAHOO! SPORTS RADIO and CBS SPORTS' TIM BRANDO, CBS RADIO Talk KMOX-A/ST. LOUIS' KEVIN WHEELER, CLEAR CHANNEL Sports KJR-A-F/SEATTLE's MITCH LEVY, CBS RADIO Sports KRLD-F (105.3 THE FAN)/DALLAS' ARNIE SPANIER and GREG "GREGGO" WILLIAMS, and BEASLEY Sports WQAM-A/MIAMI's SID ROSENBERG. |
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