Charles Osgood (1) (1933–2024)
Auteur de Funny Letters from Famous People
Pour les autres auteurs qui s'appellent Charles Osgood, voyez la page de désambigüisation.
A propos de l'auteur
Charles Osgood writes and anchors "The Osgood File" four times daily over the CBS radio network and anchors CBS television's Sunday Morning every week.
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Œuvres de Charles Osgood
Kilroy Was Here: The Best American Humor from World War II (2001) — Directeur de publication — 88 exemplaires
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the White House (2008) — Directeur de publication — 40 exemplaires
Oeuvres associées
Poetry Speaks Expanded: Hear Poets Read Their Own Work from Tennyson to Plath (2007) — Narrateur — 151 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom légal
- Wood, Charles Osgood, III
- Date de naissance
- 1933-01-08
- Date de décès
- 2024-01-23
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- New York, New York, USA
- Études
- Fordham University
Membres
Critiques
Defending Baltimore Against Enemy Attack: A Boyhood… par Charles Osgood
Kinda fun, a bit dated and definitely written for an earlier generation. Ends with a nice poem, a play on "It Was A Very Good Year" by Frank Sinatra. Charles Osgood was my absolute favorite TV news anchor, back in the day.
I always enjoyed listening to Charles Osgood on the radio. I had heard some of these stories. It’s a perfect listen (audio book) for walking on the treadmill or working outside, which I did while listening. Thoroughly enjoyable and many of the stories were fascinating.
"Mildly Amusing Letters & etc." might have been a more appropriate title for this book. Some of them are truly laugh-out-loud amusing (Benjamin Franklin's 'Model of a Letter of Recommendation of a Person You Are Unacquainted With," Herbert Hoover's commiseration with a young correspondent about having to eat spinach at a White House lunch, Gustave Flaubert's brushoff of a persistent female, GBShaw's exchange of messages with Winston Churchill, Illinois Governor Adlai Stevenson's veto of a cat bill, etc.), but most of them simply bring a smile to the lips...if that. (Even some of the 'funny people's [Groucho Marx, Fred Allen]' letters aren't all that hilarious.) Not a complete waste of time, to be sure, but, in the long run, perhaps more appropriate selections might have been made.… (plus d'informations)
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 12
- Aussi par
- 2
- Membres
- 524
- Popularité
- #47,450
- Évaluation
- 3.6
- Critiques
- 15
- ISBN
- 62