Big Russ & Me: Father and Son - Lessons of Life

Russert, Tim (1950-2008)

ISBN 10: 1401352081 / ISBN 13: 9781401352080

Published by Miramax Books, NY, 2004

About this Item

FIRST PRINTING. 6"x8.5" 336 numb. pgs. Black card stock spine w/silver metallic letters over black boards. Deckled edge. B&W photos for paste downs. Faint fading to bottom edge of front board. DJ design by Doyle Partners. Front photo by Rhea Anna. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean and bright. Not x-library, unclipped ($22.95), unmarked. 2 mended tears to DJ edges. Secure ship w/track #. NBC-TVUs senior vice Washington bureau chief and host of Meet the Press offers an intensely personal and charming memoir of American life in the 1950s and the special bond he shares with his fatherQthe irrepressible Big Russ. From the lessons he learned from his father and his Catholic upbringing to his passion for the Buffalo Bills and the New York Yankees to the grace of daily obligations and patriotism, Russert's reflections hit the very epicenter of American values. Includes 16 pages of color and b&w photos.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Big Russ & Me: Father and Son - Lessons of Life
• Publisher: Miramax Books, NY
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1401352081
• ISBN 13: 9781401352080
• Binding: Hardcover_card stock spine
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: VeryGood
• Seller catalogs:
  • Biography / Autobiography / Memoirs

About this title

Synopsis

"The older I get, the smarter my father seems to get. Hardly a day goes by when I don’t remember something that Big Russ taught me."

Over the last two decades, Tim Russert has become one of the most trusted and admired figures in American television journalism. Throughout his career he has spent time with presidents and popes, world leaders and newsmakers, celebrities and sports heroes, but one person stands out from the rest in terms of his strength of character, modest grace, and simple decency—Russert’s dad, Big Russ.

In this warm, engaging memoir, Russert casts a fond look back to the 1950s Buffalo neighborhood of his youth. In the close-knit Irish-Catholic community where he grew up, doors were left unlocked at night; backyard ponds became makeshift ice hockey rinks in winter; and streets were commandeered as touch football fields in the fall. And he recalls the extraordinary example of his father, a WWII veteran who worked two jobs without complaint for thirty years and taught his children to appreciate the values of self-discipline, of respect, of loyalty to friends.

Big Russ and Me, written in Russert’s easygoing, straight-talking style, offers an irresistible collection of personal memories. Russert recalls the dedicated teachers who stimulated his imagination and intellect, sparking a lifelong passion for politics and journalism, and inspired a career that took him from editor of his elementary school newspaper to moderator of Meet the Press.

It has been an eventful and deeply satisfying journey, but no matter where his career has taken him, Russert’s fundamental values still spring from that small house on Woodside Avenue and the special bond he shares with his father—a bond he enjoys now with his own son. As Tim Russert celebrates the indelible connection between fathers and sons, readers everywhere will laugh, cry, and identify with the lessons of life taught by the indomitable Big Russ.

About the Author

Tim Russert is NBC News s Washington bureau chief, moderator, and managing editor of Meet the Press, political analyst for Today and Nightly News, and host of the Tim Russert Show on CNBC. He lives in Washington, D.C. with his wife, writer Maureen Orth, and their son, Luke.