A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity
Selected Book Details
- Hardcover
- Edition: First Edition
- Author: Bill O'Reilly
- Publisher: Broadway Books
- Release Date: September 2008
- ISBN-10: 0767928822
- ISBN-13: 9780767928823
- List Price: $26.00
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Summaries and Customer Reviews provided by Amazon
SummaryThe year was 1957, the month September, and I had just turned eight years old. Dwight Eisenhower was President, but in my life it was the diminutive, intense Sister Mary Lurana who ruled, at least in the third-grade class where I was held captive. For reasons you will soon understand, my parents had remanded me to the penal institution of St. Brigid’s School in Westbury, New York, a cruel and unusual punishment if there ever was one. One day in 1957, in the third-grade classroom of St. Brigid’s parochial school, an exasperated Sister Mary Lurana bent over a restless young William O’Reilly and said, “William, you are a bold, fresh piece of humanity.” Little did she know that she was, early in his career as a troublemaker, defining the essence of Bill O’Reilly and providing him with the title of his brash and entertaining issues-based memoir. |
Customer Reviews
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Fantastic
I was hooked when I picked up this book. It is an resolute must read. Don't bother listening to those lefties that make a living out of bashing anyone that doesn't think like them. I enjoyed reading through Bill's life stories, many of which have life lessons in them that have proved to help me in my own life. I don't agree on every front with Bill, but he can write a great book.
Oreilly is a joke
Bill Oreilly is a hack. I'm doing a review of his book because I know its all about bill. His ego is out of this world and he thinks the world revolves around him. I'm a conservative and oreilly plays to conservatives but bill I got news for you we don't want you! Before working for fixed news bill oreilly was the host of inside edition! That says all you need to know about what he stands for.
Not the gut busting book of unstoppable laughter I thought it would be.
I purchased this book as a gift for my Grandmother who had been scouring used and new bookstores in Salem, Oregon for months and months trying to find it, with no such luck. Everywhere family members looked it was sold out. And everwhere we asked about it we were told it was hard to find because it was such a darn good read. Well, the reviews were enough to hype Grannie up but all this word of mouth around us got us even more reved up to get our hands on it. Being the savvy girl I am, I went onto Amazon.com to find it and the reviews here seemed to be just as good as we read elsewhere. Grannie got her book within the 2 weeks promised and I sat back with a grin on my face anticipating her reaction...and was so surprised when I got it. It was "just okay" as she put it. Some parts are pretty funny, but as a whole it really wasn't what she thought it was going to be. She passed it on to my Mother, who after reading it, passed it on to other family members,...and on and on and on... but everyone had the same disapointed expressions and opinions about it. "It's really not as funny as I thought it would be." "One or two parts were pretty funny, but pretty disapointed in the rest. Its not at all what I thought it would be." Thats all I kept hearing over and over again. "not what I thought it would be," Granted, everyone has their opinions. SOme people might find it hilarious, but be prepared, its not the gut-busting book of unstoppable laugher that its been hyped up to be.
Book like new
I love buying books through Amazon. This book came in less than a week and was just like new. Even the cover looked new.
O'Reilly Reconsidered
I've never spent much time watching O'Reilly's show or read any of his books. The few times I had seen him I hadn't been particularly swayed by his message but now that I've read Bold Fresh, I've reconsidered O'Reilly.
Bold Fresh offers a look into what made this man the conservative he is; and in it I can relate to my own conservative upbringing. I can honestly say he makes a case for being conservative and not Republican where I would say some of the other Fox personalities may have begun to say so as a means to appeal to political moderates.
Bold Fresh is witty and fun, easy to read and provides and interesting look at the core of one of America's favorite news personalities. Who would have ever thought a person could become powerful and wealthy Doing Good and reporting those that don't?