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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Putnam Pub Group
Publication date October 1, 1999
Pages 249
Binding Hardcover
Book category Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13 9780399145421
ISBN-10 0399145427
Dimensions 1.25 by 6 by 9 in.
Weight 1 lbs.
Availability§ Out of Print
Original list price $23.95
§As reported by publisher
Summaries and Reviews
Summary
CBS Radio commentator Charles Osgood shares his witty and wise observations on modern life, presenting more than one hundred essays on topics ranging from psychopaths and politicians to earthquakes, potholes, credit cards, and more. 35,000 first printing. (view table of contents)
Amazon.com description: Product Description: Witty, wise, rueful commentaries from one of broadcasting's funniest, most stylish writers and newsmen.

"Charles Osgood is one of the best writers in America today, any form or medium," says Dan Rather, and Jim Lehrer concurs, "He is a special mind and voice in a business where his kind is rare--and cherished." At least twelve million people listen to Osgood every day on CBS radio, and millions more watch him on CBS News Sunday Morning. All of them would agree that no one writes quite the way he does--the offbeat stories that make listeners stop and pay attention; the commentaries in which he shares his sense of wonder, dismay, or amusement; the well-spun tales of irony that often burst forth into wordplay or even poetry.

See You on the Radio gathers together the best of Osgood's work from the last eight years, over one hundred essays on everything from potholes, perfumes, felons and "freeloaders" ("Credit card customers paying on time! Taking bread from the tables of the moneylenders!"); to psychopaths and politicians (more alike than you think); to earthquakes, animal heirs, and the advancement of science ("Osgood's First Law: Just because something is obvious doesn't necessarily mean that science isn't going to discover it tomorrow") Here you'll also find out about what happened to the salesman in New Hampshire who went to jail for not having cancer, and the prisoner who attempted a jailbreak...with a yellow felt-tip pen.

In all, it is a book of pure delight, further evidence of why, in the words of Walter Cronkite, Charles Osgood "is one of the greatest talents in broadcasting today."

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Large print edition from Thorndike Pr (February 1, 2000)
9780786223121 | details & prices | 269 pages | 5.75 × 9.00 × 1.00 in. | 1.00 lbs | List price $29.95
About: CBS Radio commentator Charles Osgood shares his witty and wise observations on modern life, presenting more than one hundred essays on topics ranging from psychopaths and politicians to earthquakes, potholes, and credit cards.
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from Putnam Pub Group (October 1, 1999)
9780399145421 | details & prices | 249 pages | 6.00 × 9.00 × 1.25 in. | 1.02 lbs | List price $23.95
About: CBS Radio commentator Charles Osgood shares his witty and wise observations on modern life, presenting more than one hundred essays on topics ranging from psychopaths and politicians to earthquakes, potholes, and credit cards

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