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Title: Paul Harvey's the Rest of the Story by Paul Aurandt ISBN: 0-553-25962-8 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 July, 1984 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.8 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: fascinating stuff
Comment: I read this book about 15 years ago and was delighted to find it on amazon. This is a keeper, one that you can browse through over and over again. It contains stories of little known aspects of the lives of very well known people and is rather like an encyclopaedia based on People magazine. The element of surprise at the end gives a delightful twist to each story.
Rating: 5
Summary: Hidden History
Comment: As Napoleon indicated, History is the lies upon which we've all agreed. There is no such thing as a work of history that doesn't leave some important element out. Partly that's to make history more palatable for a new generation -- who really wants to know about dentistry in the Colonial era when we're reading about George Washington and his false teeth? No matter what the reason, though, once an item is left out of history it tends to disappear permanently.
Unless Paul Harvey Jr. gets his hands on it.
Paul Harvey Jr, who writes the short vignettes for his father's radio show "The Rest of the Story," has a gift for uncovering forgotten facts. Did you know there was another Three Stooges? Did you know Jack Benny was invited to join the Marx Brothers? Did you know one of our Founding Fathers kept his wife chained in the basement because of persistent congenital madness? I hadn't known that.
This book is an incomplete collection of Harvey's vignettes for his father's show. Some are published under the name "Paul Aurendt," and if you can find them, jump on them with both feet. However, this book provides a good primer for the forgotten corners of history, and also allows you to own copies of the vignettes Harvey has made famous over the last 25 years. One can only hope that Harvey's example will inspire more historians to investigate the forgotten corners of history and find what's been otherwise forgotten. I'd buy more of these books if more of them were available.
Rating: 4
Summary: A Simple Art
Comment: What is so memorable about Paul Harvey's stories is the impact with which one is left long after having read the peice.
His is a perspective which simultaneously realizes the innocence and the experience of the human character. A snapshot of both our potential and our pain. And it is this acceptanece, a simplistic understanding, that allows the essence of the situation to remain with the reader. Thus, initially, the reader must be trusted by the author to be capable of that understanding.
This is Harvey's talent: to assume and place before an audience not only the humanity of his subject, but also of themselves.
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Title: Paul Harvey's for What It's Worth by Jr. Paul Harvey ISBN: 0553296760 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 June, 1992 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: The 176 Stupidest Things Ever Done by Kathryn Petras, Ross Petras ISBN: 0385483414 Publisher: Main Street Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 1996 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: 1,001 Facts Somebody Screwed Up by Deane Jordan ISBN: 1563520648 Publisher: Longstreet Press Pub. Date: September, 1993 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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Title: Ever Wonder Why? by Douglas B. Smith ISBN: 0449147460 Publisher: Fawcett Books Pub. Date: 24 November, 1991 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: Blunder Book : Gigantic by M. H. Goldberg ISBN: 0688077579 Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: 25 February, 1988 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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