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Title details for The No-Spin Zone by Bill O'Reilly - Available

The No-Spin Zone

Confrontations with the Powerful and Famous in America

by Bill O'Reilly
Bill O'Reilly
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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 Reverends Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton to 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.

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  • Release date

    January 2, 2001

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781415951705
      • File size: 130713 KB
      • Duration: 04:32:19

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Like eating kumquats, Bill O'Reilly is an acquired taste. The host of a talk show on the Fox News Channel, O'Reilly is quick-witted, asks tough questions, and is highly opinionated. Even if one doesn't like him, there is no denying he is a political rhetorician of the first order. With his clear, powerful voice and careful crafting of the spoken word, his reading of this book is more like the delivery of a monologue. In this work he confronts politicians from Al Sharpton to George W. Bush, media and entertainment figures from Dan Rather to Susan Sarandon, and discusses issues from the death penalty to taxes. If you like O'Reilly, you'll enjoy his account of Hillary Clinton appearing in his dreams. M.L.C. (c) AudioFile 2002, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      September 24, 2001
      The audience of Fox's top-rated cable news talk show The O'Reilly Factor
      and of the bestselling book by the same name know that this explosive anchor can be articulate, bombastic, scornful, witty, iconoclastic, passionate, persuasive and sarcastic ("Can you feel Gary Condit's pain?"). When conducting interviews, O'Reilly, a two-time Emmy winner with 25 years reporting experience, delivers tough questions and corrosive counterpoints. In the No-Spin Zone (originally conceived for his TV show), "lies are rejected and equivocations are mocked." "All I ask is for powerful people to respond honestly to the questions, and if they can't, explain why," says O'Reilly. Here he excerpts past interviews with various memorable opponents—James Carville (on Bill Clinton), Dr. Laura (on working mothers), former surgeon general Dr. Joycelyn Elders (on sex education), Puff Daddy (on rap), Susan Sarandon (on police brutality), Al Sharpton (on boycotts)—and insightfully introduces each, mulling over the issue or providing background. To cover TV sleaze and violence, he splices interviews (Steve Allen, Howdy Doody's Buffalo Bob) into his own terse text. The same treatment is applied to the death penalty (George W. Bush, Bianca Jagger), taxes (Mario Cuomo, GAO head David Walker) and other issues. He saves the best for last—Dan Rather on news stories the media overlooks, prefaced by O'Reilly's own memories of becoming "a 'dead man walking' at CBS News." (On-sale: Oct. 16)Forecast:O'Reilly's TV ratings continue to rise, and the show's "No-Spin Zone" title will grab book buyers. With simultaneous CD and large-print editions, and an e-book due in November, total sales should be astronomical.

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