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Bill O'Shaughnessy's back. Here's the third big book of interviews, editorials, essays, commentaries, and observations, and just plain good talk from an authentic American voice.From the bully pulpitof his radio stations, O'Shaughnessy's in the middle of it all-politics, local and national; culture, high and low and in-between; the media; and, above all, the rich flow of ideas and opinion that from what the Wall Street Journal calls the quintessential community station in America. For this compelling and fascinating collection, O'Shaughnessy gathers interviews with everyone from Tony Bennett on the singer's art to Ed Koch on the art of politics. Essays and talks from luminaries ranging from Henry Kissinger to Larry King, Rudolph Giuliani to Tim Russert and Dan Rather. There are moving pieces on the impact of September 11, vivid sketches of movers and shakers, and provocative, deeply felt calls for protecting freedoms of the First Amendment. And Mario Cuomo's moving thoughts on how to restore justice and wisdom to America's political culture.From color sketches of local pols to intimate conversations with great writers and artists, Again! Again! Is an endlessly fascinating portrait our time and place-marked as always by Bill O'Shaughnessy's intelligence, insight, and eloquence.Bill O'Shaughnessy's editorials make his New York TV counterparts look like so much mish-mash.-The New York Times

The silver-haired New York broadcaster's third collection of interviews, editorials, essays, and observations covers 30 years of talking. O'Shaugnessy, a self-described Rockefeller Republican, is a free-speech advocate and former chairman of public affairs for the National Association of Broadcasters who has long been associated with community radio stations WVOX and WRTN in wealthy Westchester County, NY. The hefty volume is inset with 32 pages of b&w photos. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

The day before Augusto Pinochet was arrested, HUGH O'SHAUGHNESSY wrote an article entitled "Murderer Among Us" in the Guardian, calling for Pinochet's arrest. An award-winning journalist and broadcaster who has covered Latin America for nearly four decades, O'Shaughnessy is the author of numerous books and has been a regular correspondent for The Economist and The Financial Times, among others. A professional acquaintance of Salvador Allende, he was in Santiago on the day of Pinochet's coup d'etat in 1973.