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MY WAR
Rooney, Andrew A.
1995 21646 With his usual unique style, 60 Minutes commentatort Rooney brings us a memoir of his days as a reporter for Stars and Stripes during World War II. He wound up covering the air war in Europe, the D-Day invasion, the struggle to liberate occupied France, the discovery of Hitler's concentration camps, and the culmination of the war in the Far East. My War is a moving but still quite humorous account of those often difficult days and the rigorous on-the-job journalistic training he received "over there." From the Publisher In 1939, Andrew A. Rooney was a pretty typical twenty-year-old college boy at Colgate University. He played football, was interested in philosophy, thought he wanted to be a writer (but has no idea how to go about becoming one), and felt the America Firsters made pretty good sense. When he read that Hitler had invaded Poland, his first thought was "Where is Brest-Litovsk?" followed quickly by "How can I get out of this?" But, like millions of other Americans in that remarkable time, Andy Rooney eventually found himself in basic training in North Carolina, learning to break down a rifle, launch an artillery round, and defend freedom and democracy. In short order, his unit, the 17th Field Artillery Regiment, was in England receiving further training and waiting for the Normandy invasion to begin. And that's where Andy Rooney's war really began. Andy, whose entire journalistic experience until then had consisted of working on the 17th Field Artillery Regiment's newsletter, applied for a transfer to become a correspondent for The Stars and Stripes. And he was accepted. My War is an account of what happened then. Like so many men of his generation, Andy was changed forever on the way from Hamilton, New York, to Berlin. As a correspondent covering the air war, D-Day, the drive across France and the low Countries, the discovery of Hitler's concentration camps, and later operations in the Far East, Andy saw life at the extremes of human experience, and wrote about what he observed, telling soldier-readers in Europe about the war they were fighting. But My War is also the story of a naive, inexperienced kid learning the craft of journalism from the masters of the trade. Reporting beside Ernie Pyle, Homer Bigart, Walter Cronkite, and hundreds of other seasoned professionals, Andy found his life's work in a way he could probably never have imagined when he was in college. From The Critics Dallas Morning News A surprisingly eloquent and sensitive memoir. Rooney recreates the events he witnessed-some dramatic, some humorous, and some so gut-wrenchingly awful that he could not bring himself to write about them until now. Chicago Tribune Thoughtful, witty and moving...Rooney writes about the war he saw with wit, wisdom and a down-to-earth lack of sentimentality. Washington Post Vividly reported. Seattle Post-Intelligencer Vintage Rooney. Richmond Times-Dispatch Opinionated, very funny, immensely entertaining. Read all 9 "From the Critics" Crown Publishing Group 0-8129-2532-7 / 9780812925326
Hardcover As New Condition New York
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NOT THAT YOU ASKED...
Rooney, Andrew A.
1989 21642 From The Critics Publishers Weekly The whiny, white-haired leprechaun who dispenses cranky advice on CBS-TV's 60 Minutes as if his bromides about life's minor annoyances are raw pearls of wisdom will entertain his fans with this latest assemblage. Rooney, author of four previous books, has fun with easy targets such as the decline of romance, dull textbooks, the U.S. postal service, the dearth of good conversation, unwanted Christmas gifts and the Miss America contest. He skewers Americans' suspicious stance toward the Soviets (``I never met a Russian as mean and macho as Rambo") and pinpoints the use of sexist language (``No men ever get wed in the New York Times , just women"). Rooney has a knack of talking out of both sides of his mouth when discussing topics such as the arms race, student protest, global eco-catastrophe and the animal rights movement. Ambling from class reunions to credit cards, dogs, cats and the joys of spring in the city, these calculatedly curmudgeonly pieces touch on phenomena with which almost everybody can identify. BOMC featured alternate. (Mar.) Library Journal This is the latest collection of essays by columnist and 60 Minutes correspondent Rooney. These one- and two-page essays, written in a light-hearted tone and offering sensible values--Rooney's hallmarks--are less formulaic than in his past books the most recent being Word for Word, LJ 2/1/87-- Ed. , but still seem similar and predictable when read collectively. The best piece is the preface, which lists 100 opinions that put Rooney's popular, often insightful sentiments in a nutshell. A small weakness is his criticism of incorrect word usage in one essay while misusing ``disinterested" and ``wherefore" in others. Missing here are any of the more serious pieces which have provided depth and balance to previous works. Rooney's work appeals to a broad audience, and like his past books, this one should be quite popular. Random House Publishing Group 0-394-57837-6 / 9780394578378
Hardcover As New Condition Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A.
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