Bill Geist
Auteur de Way Off the Road: Discovering the Peculiar Charms of Small Town America
A propos de l'auteur
Bill Geist has been a correspondent for CBS News Sunday Morning since 1987. He has won two Emmys for his work on the show. He wrote several books including Little League Confidential, The Big Five-Oh, Fore! Play, and Way off the Road. He co-wrote Good Talk, Dad: The Birds and the Bees... and Other afficher plus Conversations We Forgot to Have with his son Willie Geist. (Bowker Author Biography) Bill Geist lives in New Jersey. (Publisher Provided) afficher moins
Œuvres de Bill Geist
Little League Confidential: One Coach's Completely Unauthorized Tale of Survival (1716) 88 exemplaires
Good Talk, Dad: The Birds and the Bees...and Other Conversations We Forgot to Have (2014) 70 exemplaires
Monster Trucks & Hair In A Can: Who Says America Doesn't Make Anything Anymore? (1994) 45 exemplaires
Oeuvres associées
Funny Times: A Monthly Newspaper of Humor, Politics & Fun, Volume 16, Issue 3 (2001) — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1945-05-10
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Champaign, Illinois, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Champaign, Illinois, USA (birth)
New York, New York, USA - Études
- University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (BA ∙ Communications ∙ 1968)
University of Missouri (MA ∙ Communications ∙ 1971) - Professions
- journalist
television correspondent
author
combat photographer - Relations
- Geist, Willie (son)
- Organisations
- United States Army
Chicago Tribune
The New York Times
CBS - Prix et distinctions
- Emmy (2)
Marist College Lowell Thomas Award (2007)
Membres
Critiques
Prix et récompenses
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 11
- Aussi par
- 2
- Membres
- 666
- Popularité
- #37,863
- Évaluation
- 3.5
- Critiques
- 30
- ISBN
- 57
- Langues
- 2
This is a charming memoir of the author’s teen-year summers spent working at his uncle’s resort at Lake of the Ozarks in the mid 1960s. He was a busboy, a bellhop, a dishwasher, a janitor, a kids’ counselor, a groundskeeper, a chauffeur, a delivery man. He did any and all distasteful jobs and enjoyed the company of a bevy of lovely young women who served as housemaids and/or waitresses. The pay was abysmal, but they got free room and board, a fair quantity of beer, and, perhaps most importantly, a certain sense of independence. They also occasionally got pretty nice tips, which virtually all the staff used to help pay for their college educations. They made some life-long friendships, and a few romances led to marriage.
While my current sensibilities were sometimes appalled at the behavior these teens engaged in, I had to admit to fond memories of some of my own summer jobs, and especially of the summer staff I met at a local lake resort when I was singing with a band who was performing at the resort supper club one summer. Ah, the indestructability of youth!… (plus d'informations)