Vox Populi is the long-awaited fourth collection of interviews, editorials, essays, observations and keen insight from legendary New York broadcaster William O’Shaughnessy. With this inspiring new anthology, Bill is back in a big way, offering compelling dialogue and opinion on timely issues and current events in politics, media, the arts and popular culture.
A masterful interviewer, O’Shaughnessy goes one-on- one with Barbara Taylor Bradford, Steve Forbes,
Joe Califano and a colorful band of townie characters from Westchester – the Golden Apple. Broadcasting
for five decades from what the Wall Street Journal hailed as “the quintessential community station in
America,” his thoughtful and muscular commentaries have been widely praised in all the important journals
in the land.
A self-styled First Amendment “voluptuary,” O’Shaughnessy is a stellar defender of Free Speech,
having devoted the good part of fifty years to fighting censorship and government intrusion from his influential
perch in the heart of the Eastern Establishment.
He’s the one they roll out when the likes of Howard Stern, Bob Grant and Imus get in a jam. Colorful national figures and beguiling “townies” abound in Vox Populi which is also laden with exquisitely beautiful eulogies and tributes to his departed friends Tim Russert, Wellington Mara, Robert Merrill and Ossie Davis.
And, as in every Bill O’Shaughnessy book, there is stunning and powerful wisdom and brilliant observations
from Governor Mario Cuomo whom he so admires.
The great American historian David McCullough observed: “I always look forward to reading the history
of our times Bill O’Shaughnessy has written.”
O’Shaughnessy is an authentic American voice.
- Cover
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- F.O.B. (Friends of Bill)
- PART I: BROADCASTING, CENSORSHIP, AND THE FIRST AMENDMENT
- The Silencing of Imus
- The Undoing of Don Imus
- Bob Grant on the Imus Controversy
- Obsequious Acquiescence
- Free Speech
- Censorship in Paradise
- Nancy Pelosi v. James Madison
- Further Notes on the First Amendment
- U.S. Court of Appeals Ruling on Decency
- Remarks Prepared for The Media Institute
- Rallying the Troops: A Letter to Broadcasting Colleagues
- One Tall Order: A Memo to Central Casting about the Criteria for Leadership at the NAB
- The ‘‘F-Bomb’’
- Remarks at Hofstra University
- Interview with David Rehr, Ogden Rogers Reid, Governor Mario Cuomo, and Gordon Hastings on Free Speech on the Airwaves
- Interview with Governor Mario M. Cuomo about Indecency in Broadcasting
- Interview with Louis Boccardi
- Interview with Frederic Dicker, State Editor, New York Post
- Interview with Matt Davies, 2004 Pulitzer Prize–Winning Editorial Cartoonist, Journal News
- Interview with John Crigler, Washington Communications Attorney
- Interview with Ralph R. Martinelli
- Today’s Supreme Court Opinion on Fleeting Expletives
- The Post Cartoon
- The New York State Broadcasters Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony, Fiftieth-Anniversary Conference
- Dan Rather Lawsuit
- The Decline of CBS
- Missing in Action
- Whitney Radio No-No’s: Banned from the Airwaves!
- Bob Grant’s Return!
- M. Paul Redd Dies Suddenly!
- Governor Mario M. Cuomo’s Remarks on the Passing of M. Paul Redd
- The Hell-raiser
- PART II: ONE ON ONE: INTERVIEWS
- James Brady: Author-Columnist
- The Shining City on a Hill’’: America’s Greatest Orator . . . Twenty Years Later
- A Conversation about Christmas . . . and Life
- Mario Cuomo, Esq., Talks about Martha Stewart, the Judicial System, and, Always, about Mr. Lincoln
- Mario M. Cuomo on the Death Penalty, Saddam Hussein, President Bush, Christmas, and Grandchildren
- Murray Richman, Esq., on Guy Velella
- Dick Gidron: Legendary Car Dealer Back in Action, Suing General Motors for $150 Million!
- Barbara Taylor Bradford: ‘‘A Woman of Substance’’
- Louis Cappelli at the Jacee Lynn Cappelli Diabetes Center of Sound Shore Medical Center
- Governor Mario M. Cuomo on a Grim Election Day, 2004
- Meeting Steve Forbes and Governor Mario M. Cuomo for ‘‘Breakfast at ‘21’ ’’
- Chris Matthews, ‘‘Breakfast at ‘21’ ’’
- Joseph A. Califano Jr.
- Composer–Songwriter–Saloon Singer: Murray Grand at Eighty-five
- Governor Mario M. Cuomo Talks about John Edwards and How to Bring Peace to Iraq
- Interview with Marian B. Javits on the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Senator Jacob K. Javits
- ‘‘True Love’’: Ward Quaal Talks about President Reagan
- State Senator Joe Pisani Talks about Jeanine Pirro, Politics, and His New Life
- Andy Spano Talks about Westchester Medical Center, Homeless Shelters, His Hair, and His Wife
- Robert J. Grey Jr., President, American Bar Association
- John Spicer
- Milt Hoffman
- Sy Syms
- PART III: AT THE PODIUM
- Dr. Richard Rocco Pisano
- Remarks on the New Rochelle Police Foundation
- Frédéric Fekkai at Little Flower Children and Family Services
- The Robert Merrill Postal Station
- Andy Albanese: An Icon Properly Restored (with a little help from four governors!)
- Bruce Snyder at ‘‘21’’
- Joe Macarillo and the Sun Valley Trio
- Maestro Sirio: The Ringmaster
- Sirio: The Brightest Star
- On the Grill
- W.O. as Speechwriter
- Judge Ye Not
- September Song: With a Little Help from Her ‘‘Friends’’
- The ‘‘Uber Diva’’
- Talese the Writer
- Mount St. Mary College 46th Commencement Ceremony
- ‘‘The Future Is Here . . . Behold the Future!’’
- Four Seasons Roast: 50th Anniversary
- Eliot Spitzer, Once and Former Governor
- Lowey for Congress: Where Once Giants Walked the Land
- Latimer for Assembly
- The Last Public Remarks of Ossie Davis
- Broadcasters Foundation of America Remarks of Barbara Taylor Bradford, Ambassador Ogden Rogers Reid, and Chairman Phil Lombardo
- Jeanine Pirro at the Dutch Treat Club
- Mario Cuomo at the Dutch Treat Club, 100th Anniversary
- Mario Cuomo at the Dutch Treat Club, 104th Anniversary
- Thoughts in the Summer of 2006
- Mario Cuomo’s Omega Society Speech: A Meditation on Ultimate Values
- Lesley Stahl Interviews Governor Mario M. Cuomo for ‘‘Breakfast at ‘21’ ’’
- Advice for President Obama from President Lincoln via Governor Cuomo
- Mario Cuomo’s Remarks on the Occasion of Jimmy Breslin’s 70th Birthday
- ‘‘Reason to Believe’’: Life Lessons—Mario M. Cuomo at the 92nd Street Y
- Interview with Governor Mario M. Cuomo Re: the Supreme Court, Senator Robert Byrd, Larry King, Andrew Cuomo, and the BP Oil Spill, July 2, 2010
- Sir Laurence Olivier
- PART IV: 30: WHEN ALL IS SAID AND DONE
- For Michael
- Remarks of Father John O’Brien for Michael Pasquale
- Larger than Life: Departed Souls Who Speak to Us Still
- Mr. Mara of the New York Giants
- ‘‘An Irishman Named Wellington Whose Father Was a Bookmaker’’: Eulogy to His Father by John Mara at St. Patrick’s Cathedral
- Kirby
- Dr. Stanton of CBS
- Nancy Q. Keefe: A Remembrance
- Mama Rose Migliucci: ‘‘The First Lady of Little Italy’’
- Robert Merrill (1917–2004)
- Emil Paolucci: ‘‘The Maestro’’
- A Winter’s Tale of Fathers and Sons
- Lawrence Bruce Taishoff (1933–2006)
- Jean Ensign
- ‘‘A Death in the Family’’: Tim Russert
- Paul J. Curran
- Edward J. ‘‘Ned’’ Gerrity Jr. (1924–2009)
- A Daughter’s Last Breath
- Governor Mario M. Cuomo Eulogizes Bill Modell
- Jack Newfield
- Jack Newfield Eulogized
- Tributes to Tony Malara
- Tony Malara
- ‘‘Tony’’
- Governor Mario M. Cuomo on William F. Buckley Jr.
- Funeral Service for Ossie Davis
- The Simple Priest
- Mario Cuomo Speaks of Senator Ted Kennedy
- John Branca
- EPILOGUE: MORE RIFFS, RANTS, AND RAVES (SUMMER EDITION)
- In the Midst of Winter
- Highlights from the Historic WVOX/Worldwide 50th-Anniversary Broadcast
- Afterword
- Supporting Cast
- Glaring Omissions
- Index
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