Andy Rooney: 60 Years of Wisdom and Wit

Author: Andy Rooney
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 078674622X
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 320

Book Description
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.

Andy Rooney: 60 Years of Wisdom and Wit

Author: Andy Rooney
Publisher: Public Affairs
ISBN: 1586489038
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 322

Book Description
A wonderful, diverse collection spanning the writing career of the celebrated"60 Minutes" commentator and bestselling author.

Common Nonsense

Author: Andy Rooney
Publisher: PublicAffairs
ISBN: 1586486179
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 413

Book Description
"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."

My War

Author: Andy Rooney
Publisher: Public Affairs
ISBN: 9781586480103
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 358

Book Description
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.

A Few Minutes with Andy Rooney

Author: Andrew A. Rooney
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
ISBN: 9780446303019
Category : American wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 346

Book Description
Insightful essays on the frustrations of modern life.

The Most of Andy Rooney

Author: Andrew A. Rooney
Publisher: BBS Publishing Corporation
ISBN: 9780883657652
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 796

Book Description
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.

Elvis Is Dead and I Don't Feel So Good Myself

Author: Lewis Grizzard
Publisher: NewSouth Books
ISBN: 1603060839
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 258

Book Description
The 1950s were simple times to grow up. For Lewis Grizzard and his buddies, gallivanting meant hanging out at the local store, eating Zagnut candy bars and drinking "Big Orange bellywashers." About the worst thing a kid ever did was smoke rabbit tobacco rolled in paper torn from a brown grocery sack, or maybe slick back his hair into a ducktail and try gyrating his hips like Elvis. But then assassinations, war, civil rights, free love, and drugs rocked the old order. And as they did, Grizzard frequently felt lost and confused. In place of Elvis, the Pied Piper of his generation, Grizzard now found wormy-looking, long-haired English kids who performed either half-naked or dressed like Zasu Pitts. Elvis Is Dead and I Don't Feel So Good Myself is the witty, satiric, nostalgic account of Grizzard's efforts to survive in a changing world. Sex, music, clothes, entertainment, and life itself receive the Grizzard treatment. In this, his sixth book, Grizzard was never funnier or more in tune with his readers. He might not have felt so good himself, but his social commentary and humor can still make the rest of us feel just fine.

Sincerely, Andy Rooney

Author: Andy Rooney
Publisher: PublicAffairs
ISBN: 9781891620348
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 346

Book Description
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

Years of Minutes

Author: Andy Rooney
Publisher: PublicAffairs
ISBN: 1586486160
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 548

Book Description
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

The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies

Author: Erik Brynjolfsson
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393239357
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 320

Book Description
The big stories -- The skills of the new machines : technology races ahead -- Moore's law and the second half of the chessboard -- The digitization of just about everything -- Innovation : declining or recombining? -- Artificial and human intelligence in the second machine age -- Computing bounty -- Beyond GDP -- The spread -- The biggest winners : stars and superstars -- Implications of the bounty and the spread -- Learning to race with machines : recommendations for individuals -- Policy recommendations -- Long-term recommendations -- Technology and the future (which is very different from "technology is the future").