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A Voice in the Box: My Life in Radio by Bob Edwards PW Review "After 30 years as an NPR radio host (All Things Considered and Morning Edition) and seven years and counting with two eponymous shows at Sirius XM, Edwards knows how to tell a story. The author of Edward R. Murrow and the Birth of Broadcast Journalism... (read more) Your price: $21.95 New - Hardcover 
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This Is NPR: The First Forty Years by Cokie Roberts et al. Staff Pick Hard to imagine NPR is only 40 years old! (What did people listen to before then? Static?) This fascinating chronicle of NPR's history features its most famous personalities and a CD full of the very best "driveway moments."... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $12.50 Used - Hardcover
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Let a Smile Be Your Umbrella: But Don't Get a Mouthfull of Rain by Joey Reynolds Publisher Comments Recounting humorous anecdotes and stories of the many celebrities and rock stars he has met, radio talk show host Reynolds offers his compelling biography.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $1.95 Used - Hardcover
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Pacifica Radio: The Rise of an Alternative Network (American Subjects) by Matthew Lasar Publisher Comments In the public radio landscape, the Pacifica network stations stand out as innovators of diverse and controversial broadcasting. Pacifica's fifty years of struggle to define itself as against social and political conformity began with a group of young men... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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Paul Harvey's America: The Life, Art, and Faith of a Man Who Transformed Radio and Inspired a Nation by David Holland Publisher Comments When America lost its most popular radio personality, Paul Harvey, in February 2009, millions of people mourned the man who had brightened their lives with news, storytelling, and commentary for more than 57 years. Now, New York Times best-selling... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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Radio on: A Listener's Diary by Sarah Vowell Publisher Comments There are approximately 502 million radios in America. For this savvy, far-reaching diary, celebrated journalist and author Vowell turned hers on and listened--closely, critically, creatively--for an entire year. As a series of impressions and... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Good Day!: The Paul Harvey Story by Paul Batura Publisher Comments PRAISE FOR Good Day! “Paul Harvey: a voice of reason, a voice of common sense, an eloquent spokesman for the America and the Americans he loved. Open this book and read ‘the rest of the story.” —Ben Stein, author, actor, economist... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Rebels on the Air: An Alternative History of Radio in America by Jesse Walker Publisher Comments The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries saw the rise of capitalism and the modern nation-state, the establishment of an increasingly international economy, and the beginnings of modern colonialism. It was a turbulent time, marked by revolutionary... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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Right of the Dial: The Rise of Clear Channel and the Fall of Commercial Radio by Alec Foege Publisher Comments In Right of the Dial, Alec Foege explores how the mammoth media conglomerate evolved from a local radio broadcasting operation, founded in 1972, into one of the biggest, most profitable, and most polarizing corporations in the country. During its heyday,... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Hardcover
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Everyone's Crazy Except You and Me...And I'm Not So Sure About You by Lionel, Publisher Comments Everyone's Crazy Here... In his twenty years on the radio, the mononymous Lionel (one name, like God, as he is fond of saying) has forged his reputation as an irreverent, ribald, take-no-prisoners analyst of culture, politics, and the world at large. Now... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $16.82 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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40 Watts from Nowhere: A Journey Into Pirate Radio by Sue Carpenter Publisher Comments When law office receptionist Sue Carpenter first asked how she might start her own radio station, everyone laughed. Getting on the air (legitimately) in San Francisco was a multimillion-dollar ambition. But in 1995, with the help of a few subversive... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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More Riffs, Rants and Raves by Willia Oshaughnessy Publisher Comments 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... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Hardcover
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More from Our Own Correspondent: With Dispatches from Misha Glenny, John Simpson, Caroline Wyatt, and Many More by Tony Grant Publisher Comments 1955, From Our Own Correspondent has been one of BBC Radio 4's flagship programs. Every week correspondents from around the world report on stories behind the headlines. After the huge success of From Our Own Correspondent, this new companion volume... (read more) List Price $15.25 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Archives of the Airwaves Vol. 3 by Roger C Paulson Publisher Comments This 10 volume set from historian Roger C. Paulson promises to be the Most Complete OTR encyclopedia ever written. At least seven times the size of John Dunning's On the Air, this massive tome has been 20 years in the making and is a MUST for any fan of... (read more) List Price $23.25 Your price: $14.95 Used - Trade Paper
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They Call Me Baba Booey by Gary Dellabate Publisher Comments One of pop culture’s great enduring unsung heroes: Gary Dell’Abate, Howard Stern Show producer, miracle worker, professional good sport, and servant to the King of All Media, for the first time tells the story of his early years and reveals... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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Off Mike: A Memoir of Talk Radio and Literary Life by Michael Krasny Publisher Comments KQED Radio's Michael Krasny is one of the country's leading interviewers of literary luminaries, a maestro for educated listeners who prefer their discourse high and civil. He is a writer's interviewer. But it didn't start out that way. In Off Mike... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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They Call Me Baba Booey by Chad Millman Publisher Comments One of pop culture's great enduring unsung heroes: Gary Dell'Abate, Howard Stern Show producer, miracle worker, professional good sport, and servant to the King of All Media, for the first time tells the story of his early years and reveals how his... (read more) Your price: $11.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Listening in :radio and the American imagination, from Amos 'n' Andy and Edward R. Murrow to Wolfman Jack and Howard Stern by Susan Douglas Publisher Comments This book's nostalgic pleasures will grab anyone who has ever whiled away the afternoon listening to a baseball game, smuggled a transistor radio under the blankets to listen after hours, or driven cross-country to Top 40 hits. But Listening In is also a... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price: $5.50 Used - Hardcover
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They Call Me Baba Booey by Gary Dellabate Publisher Comments NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Includes all-new ma-ma-material! ALL NEW CHAPTER: Baba Booey’s Afghanistan Journal! and . . . the Shvoogie Buzzer story! One of pop culture’s great enduring unsung heroes: Gary Dell’Abate, Howard Stern Show... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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More Riffs, Rants, and Raves by William O'Shaughnessy Publisher Comments 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... (read more) List Price $30.40 Your price: $26.98 Google eBooks - Electronic
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