Airwaves: A Collection of Radio Editorials from the Golden Apple

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Fordham Univ Press, 1999 - 391 páginas

AirWAVES , a collection of more than thirty years of editorials and commentary given by William O'Shaughnessy, encompasses a wide spectrum of Westchester life, from politics to just plain citizens.

O'Shaughnessy, hailed "The Squire of Westchester," by former governor Mario Cuomo, brings together a retrospective for the Golden Apple, Westchester County, providing the reader with not only a slice of his articulate style and graceful persona, but also an historiography of events and happenings in and around the county.

Dentro del libro

Contenido

Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller
1
Great Souls and Colorful Characters
41
Mario Matthew Cuomo
193
To Life
227
The First Amendment
239
Broadcasting and the Press
271
Assassinations
303
OShaughnessy at the Podium
317
Derechos de autor

Términos y frases comunes

Pasajes populares

Página 312 - No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy...
Página 261 - We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
Página 226 - She puts her hands to the distaff, and her fingers ply the spindle. She reaches out her hands to the poor, and extends her arms to the needy.
Página 168 - Sadly, even after passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965...
Página 9 - If there ever could be a proper time for mere catch arguments, that time surely is not now. In times like the present men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and in eternity.
Página 147 - ... the work of Christmas begins: to find the lost, to heal the broken, to feed the hungry, to release the prisoner, to rebuild the nations, to bring peace among brothers, to make music in the heart.

Acerca del autor (1999)

William O'Shaughnessy is president and editorial director of Whitney Global Media, parent company of Westchester community stations WVOX and WVIP. In addition to The Townies, he is the author of Radio Active (2019), AirWAVES (1999), It All Comes Back to Me Now (2001), More Riffs, Rants and Raves, VOX POPULI: The O'Shaughnessy Files (2011), and Mario Cuomo: Remembrances of a Remarkable Man (2017).

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