Synopses & Reviews
On the heels of his runaway New York Times bestseller, The O'Reilly Factor, Bill O'Reilly delivers another strong dose of no-holds-barred advice and the unvarnished truth for America.
Bill O'Reilly is even madder today than when he wrote his last book The O'Reilly Factor-and his fans love him even more. He's mad because things have gone from bad to worse, in politics, in Hollywood, in every social stratum of the nation. True to its title, The No-Spin Zone cuts through all the rhetoric that some of O'Reilly's most infamous guests have spewed to expose what's really on their minds, while sharing plenty of his own emphatic counterpoints along the way.
Shining a searing spotlight on public figures from President George W. Bush and Senator Hillary Clinton to the Reverend Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and his former CBS News colleague Dan Rather, The No-Spin Zone is laced with the kind of straight-shooting commentary that has made O'Reilly the voice of middle America's disenfranchised. Examining sex and violence in the media and the tarnished legacy of the Clintons with the same feistiness as the death penalty (which he opposes) and timid national news organizations that roll over for the powerful, Bill O'Reilly delivers not only his opinions, but the documented attitudes of the country's movers and shakers as well. It demonstrates just why O'Reilly has become the most successful, the most controversial, the most beloved (by some), and the most disliked (by others) figure in television news today_and a culture hero to tens of millions of everyday Americans. And that's fact, not spin.
About the Author
A twenty-year veteran of the television industry,
Bill O’Reilly has won two Emmy awards for excellence in reporting. He served as national correspondent for ABC News and as anchor of the nationally syndicated
Inside Edition. A graduate of Marist College, he holds two master’s degrees, one in public administration from Harvard and another in broadcast journalism from Boston University. He lives on Long Island with his wife and their daughter.
James Ellroy, who contributes an afterword to The No-Spin Zone, is a famed novelist and journalist who profiled Bill O’Reilly for the magazine GQ. His latest book is The Cold Six Thousand.
Table of Contents
Opening bell -- "You kidding me?". Issue 1. Sexual deviants who prey on children : the opponent, Floyd Abrams -- Reading, writing, and the joy of sex. Issue 2. Sex ed in your child's classroom : the opponent, Dr. Joycelyn Elders -- "Why? Because we like you!". Issue 3. Violence and sleaze in our living rooms : the opponent, Steve Allen -- The sound of four-letter music. Issue 4. Sex and violence in your kid's headphones : the opponent, Sean "Puff Daddy" Combs -- The Laura antidote. Issue 5. Tough talk on moms, kids, and work : the opponent, Dr. Laura Schlessinger -- Suddenly Susan. Issue 6. Sticking it to the cops : the opponent, Susan Sarandon -- You can call me Ai. Issue 7. Boycotting for dollars : the opponent, Alfred Charles Sharpton, Jr. -- Jesse's world. Issue 8. Show us the money : the opponents, Jesse Jackson and his supporters -- The bill is past due. Issue 9. The legacy of Bill Clinton : the opponent, James Carville -- Bush-wacked. Issue 10. Capital punishment : the opponent, George W. Bush -- Your money and your life. Issue 11. Taxes in America : the opponents, Mario Cuomo and David Walker -- I want to take you higher. Issue 12. America's drug culture : the opponents, John McCain, Barry McCaffrey, and Ted Demme -- Rather telling. Issue 13. The failure of network TV news to investigate the powerful : the opponent, Dan Rather -- It would take a village to drage Hillary into the no spin zone. Issue 14. Dodging the tough interviews : the opponent, Hillary Clinton -- No spin viewers. Issue 15. Not liking O'Reilly : the opponents, regular folks -- Caution: you are about to enter a no spin zone. Issue 16. You and your own personal Zone : the opponent, the world we live in.