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Noah Adams on "All Things Considered" (Paperback)
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Noah Adams on "All Things Considered" (Paperback)
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Over its twenty-year history National Public Radio's "All Things
Considered" has become a landmark American program, a unique source
of news and of voices from across the country that don't often get
a hearing elsewhere. In these pages, Noah Adams captures a year in
the life of "All Things Considered", and celebrates the special
pleasures of the show: its original blend of frontline news
reporting, commentary, and features; its spirited attention to the
highways and the byways of American life; and the people - "All
Things Considered" staff and listeners alike - who make it all
happen. The year's stories take us from China to Romania and from
Alaska to Appalachia, from the fall of Communism in Eastern Europe
to a West Virginia fire department's ramp supper fundraiser. Along
the way we look in on musicians, writers, farmers, and bungee
jumpers; we go whale watching and lighthouse hunting; and we ride
the rails from St. Paul to Seattle on the "Empire Builder" train.
We see how the broadcast is put together by a team of reporters,
technicians, and announcers determined to bring us the news
straight from the source, without distortions and simplifications.
We learn how "All Things Considered" and National Public Radio got
their starts, and how Noah Adams came to join them both. And we
hear a lifetime's worth of stories of radio work gone (sometimes)
just right and (occasionally) hilariously wrong. Most of all we
meet people on both sides of the radio who we're glad to know,
listeners from all across the country and the "All Things
Considered" reporters - Cokie Roberts, Nina Totenberg, John
Hockenberry, Deborah Amos, Susan Stamberg, and others - who have
become as familiar to us, and astrusted, as neighbors across the
back fence. As engaging and varied as the program it chronicles,
here is a must-read for every fan of what Time calls "the most
literate, trenchant, and entertaining news program on the radio".
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