Big Russ and Me: Father and Son: Lessons of Life
by Tim Russert
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Author: Tim RussertEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2005-05-11
ISBN: 1401359655
Number of pages: 352
Publisher: Miramax
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Book Review: Awsome book
Summary: 5 Stars
This is truly one of the best books I ever read. I just loved it. I am from Western NY also, and a year younger than Tim. So much of what he wrote brought back so many memories He wrote this book just like he talked. Each chapter was a different segment of his life. My biggest regret is that I did not read it while he was still with us so I could let him know how much I enjoyed it.
I recommend this book highly.
Summary of Big Russ and Me: Father and Son: Lessons of Life
Tim Russert's #1 New York Times bestseller -- now in paperback.Now in paperback -- the #1 best-selling Father's Day book of 2004, with over half a million copies sold in hardcover. Tim Russert, one of America's most watched and trusted news anchors, connected with readers across the nation with his critically acclaimed memoir about growing up in the 1950s and the special bond between fathers and sons.
Veteran newsman and Meet the Press moderator Tim Russert is known for his direct and unpretentious style and in this charming memoir he explains why. Russert's father is profiled as a plainspoken World War II veteran who worked two blue-collar jobs while raising four kids in South Buffalo but the elder Russert's lessons on how to live an honest, disciplined, and ethical life are shown to be universal. Big Russ and Me, a sort of Greatest Generation meets Tuesdays with Morrie, could easily have become a sentimental pile of mush with a son wistfully recalling the wisdom of his beloved dad. But both Russerts are far too down-to-earth to let that happen and the emotional content of the book is made more direct, accessible, and palatable because of it. The relationship between father and son, contrary to what one would think of as essential to a riveting memoir, seems completely healthy and positive as Tim, the academically gifted kid and later the esteemed TV star and political operative relies on his old man, a career sanitation worker and newspaper truck driver, for advice. Big Russ and Me also traces Russert's life from working-class kid to one of broadcast journalism's top interviewers by introducing various influential figures who guided him along the way, including Jesuit teachers, nuns, his dad's drinking buddies, and, most notably, the late New York Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, whom Russert helped get elected in 1976. Plenty of entertaining anecdotes are served up along the way from schoolyard pranks to an attempt to book Pope John Paul II on the Today Show. Though not likely to revolutionize modern thought, Big Russ and Me will provide fathers and sons a chance to reflect on lessons learned between generations. --Charlie Williams
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