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We Interrupt This Broadcast with 3 CD's - 6/27/2009 12:06:14 PM
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fiery
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I think Arlene would enjoy this one. Arlene, I hope you share some reviews of your own with us sometime too! :)
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Spanning seventy years, from the devastating Hindenburg explosion in 1937 right up to the 2007 Virginia Tech Massacre atrocity, We Interrupt This Broadcast looks more deeply at forty two of the most pivotal stories behind the newsflash. The addition of 3 audio CD recordings of the original news broadcasts that accompany this book take an already absorbing read to a new level. Suddenly you have a living breathing historical record of those jaw dropping events, both tragedies and triumphs, in your hands.
I can't recommend this book highly enough. The CDs really bring it all to life and brings the memories back of hearing the announcement for the first time of ones I'm old enough to remember with such a force that I was in tears more than once reading this book. Here's the full review.
The author of this New York Times betseller is Joe Garner. The introduction by Walter Cronkite and his sharing of his own deeply personal experience of having to interrupt a broadcast to announce JFK's death is worth reading the book for alone.
< Message edited by fiery -- 6/27/2009 12:08:33 PM >
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