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| Big Russ and Me: Father and Son: Lessons of Life | 
 enlarge | Author: Tim Russert
Publisher: Miramax
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  145 reviews
Sales Rank: 11945
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 352
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 8.1 x 5.2 x 1.2
ISBN: 1401359655
Dewey Decimal Number: 070.92
EAN: 9781401359652
ASIN: 1401359655
Publication Date: May 11, 2005
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 Fantastic May 13, 2004
12 out of 28 found this review helpful
I'm the author of "Thinkertoys (A Handbook of Business Creativity)" and "Cracking Creativity (The Thinking Stratigies if Creative Genius). I was enthralled reading Tim's book. His life is an examplar of every virtue I teach in my seminars. All of us ought to be like Tim. What a wonderful world it would be if we were.
 Tim Russert: TV Moderator May 12, 2004
26 out of 87 found this review helpful
Tim Russert tells the story of an admirable man, Big Russ, his father, who grew up poor, survived a bomber crash in world war two and went on to support his wife and four children by working at two jobs for thirty years. Russerts life, however, bears absolutely no resemblance to that of his father. He is a lawyer and millionaire Washington D.C. beltway insider, married to a glamorous celebrity journalist, Maureen Orth. If Russert had limited himself to a discussion of the impact of character and values on his father's own life, the book could have held up as the story of a good man, Big Russ. Unfortunately, Russert wants the reader to think that as a result of his father's example and teachings, he himself is both a good journalist and a good man.
Russert graduated from law school and before his political connections led him to NBC, he worked as a political aide. Those who watch "Meet the Press" know that although Russert asks
"tough questions" of all his guests, he is quite selective in his application of follow-up questions. For example during the run-up to the war in Iraq, Vice President Richard Cheney told a complacent Russert that oil revenues would finance the war, Iraqis would greet Americans as liberators, and Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction. After the unchallenged forums Russert has provided Donald Rumsfeld, Richard Perle and Paul Wolfowitz over these last couple of years, Russert can hardly be called a good journalist.
Recommended Reading May 11, 2004
12 out of 23 found this review helpful
This is an enjoyable book that I found hard to put down once I started reading it. Tim Russert has a breezy writing style that drew me in. If you're familiar with Meet the Press or not, I recommend it for fun summer reading. Debbie Farmer, parenting author of 'Don't Put Lipstick on the Cat'
Old-Fashioned Virtues, New Age Emotions May 11, 2004
16 out of 22 found this review helpful
Russert combines the lessons of his hard-knock Irish-Catholic environment with more modern emotional impressions of his family life. His relationship with his father is enviable, and if the book seems a bit soft or too good to be true, it's a sign of Russert's genuine regular-guy persona. It's always great to read a memoir more concerned with the story than the literary leaps of the writing or the ego of the author. My other favorite family memoir is "I Sleep At Red Lights: A True Story of Life After Triplets," by Bruce Stockler, a hilarious, heartwarming and surprisingly honest account of marriage, fertility, being a Dad, work, career and making new priorities.
Good book, but not great. May 10, 2004
23 out of 35 found this review helpful
I watch Meet the Press, so when I found out Tim Russert was writing a book about his life, I decided I wanted to read it. I picked up this book this morning and read right through it, cover to cover. It is an okay book, and a very easy read written at the 8th grade level (I do not mean that as an insult, I think he was writing this book for a wide audience). It tells the story of Tim Russerts life and the lessons he learned. For example, it talks about his father holding down two jobs, and how he had accumulated over 200 unused sick days by the time he retired. Yet it goes over the top, suggesting that anyone who takes a day off has a bad work ethic. The book does have a few passages that made me chuckle, like one of Russert's bosses in the sanitation department who last name was Mr. Scalavzeviz (or something like that) which nobody could pronounce, so they all called him Mr. Sonuvabitch. I hesitantly recommend this book, and forwarn people that there is a preaching like quality to the book that might rub some the wrong way, even though I do not think Russert intended it that way. But all in all, it was a good read. If you watch Meet the Press, this book is a good opportunity to gain some insight about the moderator.
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