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The Face the Nation commentator delivers ?a fitting companion to his career memoir, This Just In? (Texas Monthly).
Bob Schieffer?s America brings together 171 of his smart, humorous, and pitch-perfect essays: from today?s hard issues to the human stories that show readers who they are; from politics and presidents and tragedy to the things that touch them, make them laugh, or record the small shifts in culture that just creep up. In addition, Schieffer has written ?commentaries on my commentaries? that run throughout the book, offering further anecdotes, reflections, updates, and insights.
Bob Schieffer?s America brings together 171 of his smart, humorous, and pitch-perfect essays: from today?s hard issues to the human stories that show readers who they are; from politics and presidents and tragedy to the things that touch them, make them laugh, or record the small shifts in culture that just creep up. In addition, Schieffer has written ?commentaries on my commentaries? that run throughout the book, offering further anecdotes, reflections, updates, and insights.
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Table of Contents
PRAISE FOR Bob Schieffers America
A highly introspective and entertaining volume by a top-notch TV reporter... Theres enlightenment and relaxing reading here by a newsman whos comfortable doing the one job to which he aspired long ago in Texasbeing a reporter.
The Providence Journal
Always the plainspoken Texan, the veteran newsman weighs in, ever so succinctly, on a variety of topics and events.... The result is a fitting companion work to his 2003 career memoir, This Just In, and 2004s Face the Nation, a collection of stories from the show. TV constraints dictated the brevity of these pieces, but Schieffer thrives in the short form, displaying the rare ability to speak his mind and then move on. We could use more of that.
Texas Monthly
With tongue-in-cheek rhetoric, the author creates his own exploratory committee because everyone else seems to be doing it.... and people for some reason send them millions of dollars... Schieffers ruminations are appealing... humorous.
Publishers Weekly
They have more meat than a sound bite yet remain short and pithy.... Occasionally the author will come out of left field with some pleasing illumination la Andy Rooney. At other times, he turns up the acerbity in the mode of his mentor Eric Sevareid... Insightful nuggets that express a worldview, an ethical system, and a newsmans code of conduct.
Kirkus Reviews
Offer[s] a broad range of perspectives on diverse topics, some reflecting changes in Schieffers sentiments over the years and some showing steadfast concern... The essays are thoughtful, engaging, and often humorous as Schieffer looks back on forty years of covering Washington and the nations hinterlands, noting that he has found more to celebrate than to lament. A solid follow-up to his earlier bestselling memoir, This Just In.
Booklist
CRITICAL ACCLAIM FOR BOB SCHIEFFERS
This Just In
A delight, a joya treasure.
Jim Lehrer
Schieffers highly personal memoir is just like his reporting: fresh, interesting, candid, and very readable. In addition to being an enjoyable read and a very human memoir, This Just In adds fresh perspective and new understanding to our common history of the past fifty years.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Rich and enlightening... When youve been a newsman as long as Bob Schieffer has, the number of engaging stories you can tell seems infinite. And when youre as skillful and modest about telling them, the reader appreciates you all the more.
Houston Chronicle
Funny, nonpartisan, civil... A relaxed and conversational memoir that will entertain anyone.
New York Daily News
Schieffer balances serious subjects with ample doses of humor. His book not only brims with historical insights, it is honest, direct, and self-critical. Whats not to like?
Rocky Mountain News
A particularly smart, well-written, and funny memoir of a distinguished forty-year career.
Newsday
A treasure trove of anecdotes. Far more than just an autobiography, Schieffer discusses his impressions of the people and events as he covered them, and how his views may have changed with the passage of time.
Austin American-Statesman
An informative, satisfying autobiographythe classy, insightful memoir youd expect. Schieffer has never lost the common touch that distinguishes his work from the over-the-top style too often favored by other talking heads. A lesson in succinct, comprehensive communication, Schieffer can get across in a matter of paragraphs what would take other writers several chapters or even entire books. This should be mandatory reading for anyone interested in history or the professional experiences of a talented, hardworking reporter.
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Bob Schieffers book has everything but ego.
The Washington Post
ALSO BY BOB SCHIEFFER
BOOKS
Face the Nation: My Favorite Stories from the First 50 Years of the Award-Winning News Broadcast
This Just In: What I Couldnt Tell You on TV
The Acting President
(with Gary Paul Gates)
SONGS
There to Here (with Jean Bratman)
TV Anchorman
Little Lulu and Sister Hot Stuff
Longshot Love
Dark and Stormy Night
(all with Diana Quinn)
For the two women I owe most, my loving wife, Pat, and my mother, Gladys Payne Schieffer, a child of the Great Depression who was determined that her children would have what was denied her, a college education. I became the first on either side of the family to graduate from college, and I believe she would be pleased to know that by 2008 not only had all three of her children graduated but her three grandchildren as well, amassing among them nine graduate and undergraduate degrees.
How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
E. M. FORSTER
PREFACE
This is a book of short essays about life, liberty and the pursuit of news. The vast majority of the pieces found here were the final thoughts that I began writing in 1994 to tack on the end of our Face the Nation broadcasts. Final thoughts is a misnomer, of course. If writing these pieces has taught me anything, it is that no thoughts should be final, especially mine. While most of them were written over the last fourteen years, a few of the somewhat longer ones go back to the 1970s, when I wrote weekly opinion pieces for CBS Radio.
Within this collection is to be found everything from reflections on war and peace to advice to fathers on how to act normal.
The partisans of the hard right and left who seem to have no purpose but to prove the rightness of their cause will discover little of interest here. I find the professional screamers and their checklists of what constitutes a liberal or conservative predictable to the point of boredom. As I listen to their arguments on the cable channels and their unwillingness to give an inch on any issue, I still long for the day when someone on one side responds to someone on the other side by saying, What an interesting point. You may be right. Im still waiting, but I am not holding my breath.
I have always believed the greater and more intellectually challenging search is finding the things that bring us together rather than the differences that drive us apart.
In these essays, I have tried to follow the rule laid down by my great teacher Eric Sevareid to elucidate, when one can, rather than advocate.
But I have tried, as well, never to forget his admonition to retain the courage of ones doubts as well as ones convictions in this world of dangerously passionate certainties.
Most of the time, these essays are simply observationssnapshots of my thinkingabout America and Americans and how we came to be who and what we are.
Over the years I have found more to celebrate than to lament about America. To be sure, there was plenty to criticize, including the failure of government in the wake of Katrina, the foolishness of a government bureaucracy so big and cumbersome that it sometimes was unable to get out of its own way and government in which political spin had become so ingrained that at times its officials could no longer even recognize the truth, let alone tell it.
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