We Interrupt This Broadcast with 3 CDs: The Events That Stopped Our Lives...from the Hindenburg Explosion to the Virginia Tech Shooting [With 3 Audio - Hardcover

Garner, Joe

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1402213190 ISBN 13: 9781402213199

Verlag: SOURCEBOOKS INC, 2008

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""This outstanding examination of 46 profoundly impacting "breaking news" events-from the crash of the Hindenburg to the massacre at Virginia Tech-reminds us of the essential role TV and radio have always played in keeping America informed at moments of celebration as well as catastrophe." " - American Profile

""It gives the biggest headlines not only background but also consequence." " - The Book Nest

""These are incredibly moving historical milestones and I will admit to choking up and even shedding some tears as I listened to the audio tracks." " - We Be Reading

""Effectively combining history, commentary, and audio recordings of actual news broadcasts, Joe Garner's recently re-released We Interrupt This Broadcast is a far cry above the typical coffee-table history book."" - Word Candy

""We Interrupt This Broadcast is an amazing journey through our past and all the events that have shaped us into what we are today." " - B&b ex libris

""It's that sense of being part of something bigger than ourselves. What is interesting is that besides friends from here in the States, I'll be hosting friends from various parts of the world, from England to Mexico to Brazil and, yet, the images of the fiery Hindenburg, the moon landing, or the tumbling Berlin wall is something that at least one of us sitting around the table eating turkey will have a memory to share from one or more of the major events from the book."

" - Huffington Post

""Hearing the actual broadcasts takes you back in time--even if you were never there. As far as I'm concerned, Sourcebooks has hit another homerun when it comes to bringing history to life."" - Reader For Life

""The power of pictures bring back powerful emotions, of sadness, it will remind you of what you were feeling and smelling and doing during the broadcast. At least it did for me."" - Seaside Book Worm Blogger

""I sat down intending to just thumb through the book and listen to a bit of a CD and found four hours had gone by, so buyer beware and all that, particularly if you end up purchasing it for someone else ... you may end up keeping it to go over at leisure because there is so much material provided."" - Daily Kos

""The real hook is the inclusion of three CDs featuring audio taken from the original radio broadcasts. Narrator Bill Kurtis reads what amounts to condensed versions of the book's articles, punctuated by excerpts of the breaking news. Not intended as a comprehensive account, a good job is done by giving a sort of Cliffs Notes version of major news stories."" - Blog Critics

Reseña del editor:

Updated to incorporate the events of the past five years, a collection of photographs, descriptive text, and three audio CDs documents such world changing events as Pearl Harbor, the assassinations of John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr., the fall of the Berlin Wall, the September 11 terrorist attacks, hurricane Katrina, and the massacre at Virginia Tech.

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• Verlag: SOURCEBOOKS INC
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1402213190
• ISBN 13: 9781402213199
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 208