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Telling Others What to Think: Recollections of a Pundit(Media and Public Affairs)

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A Pulitzer Prize-winning editorialist and a former syndicated columnist, Edwin M. Yoder Jr. spent forty years as a newspaper journalist. Telling Others What to Think, he writes, is about "an education in its broadest sense," the experiences and personal influences that formed him. Yoder traces his aptitude for punditry to the southern storytelling tradition, a long family heritage of scholars and schoolteachers, and his father's being "opinionated" - in the better sense of that word. After graduating from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, he studied at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar and then returned to his home state. First at the Charlotte News and then at the Greensboro Daily News, Yoder took on the Birch Society and segregation, among other targets. He moved to Washington, D.C., to be editorial page editor of the Star, where he won a Pulitzer in 1979. When that paper folded in 1981, he joined the Washington Post Writers Group as a syndicated columnist, and for fifteen years his column appeared in newspapers around the country and abroad. In his book, Yoder is most compelling when describing the pleasures and hazards of maintaining professional and social relationships with people in the arena of politics and public life - including Washington Post editorial page editor Meg Greenfield, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell, and Georgetown University president Father Timothy Healy. Circumspect, forthright, and generous in his reflections, Yoder the man and the pundit prove to be the same. An appendix presents a portfolio of his past columns, sage advice to the aspiring opinion writer, and thoughts on the tabloidization of news in recent years. A rich and intriguing personal story of someone whose job it was to comment on the events of the day, Ed Yoder's Telling Others What to Think speaks eloquently as well of the wider world of American politics and culture.

About the Author :
Edwin M. Yoder Jr. is the author of four previous books, including The Night of the Old South Ball and Joe Alsop's Cold War. He lives in Alexandria, Virginia.

Review :
"Among all journalists whom I have known--and I have known many, including many of the best--[Yoder] is the wisest, the most erudite, the most humane and the wittiest. Evidence of all that is on every page of this lovely book."


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780807130339
  • Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Louisiana State University Press
  • Height: 238 mm
  • No of Pages: 312
  • Series Title: Media and Public Affairs
  • Sub Title: Recollections of a Pundit
  • Width: 165 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0807130338
  • Publisher Date: 30 Sep 2004
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 28 mm
  • Weight: 333 gr


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