Title

Fools' names, fools' faces

Description

Andrew Ferguson's collection of thirty-two essays reprinted from the New Republic, the Wall Street Journal and other publications.

Subject

"Popular culture--United States."

"Fads--United States."

Creator

Ferguson, Andrew

Source

Brian Lamb Booknotes Collection

Gift of Brian Lamb, 2011.

Catalog record

Publisher

Atlantic Monthly Press

George Mason University. Libraries. Special Collections & Archives

Date

1996

Program air date: November 3, 1996

Rights

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Relation

Original Booknotes interview

Booknotes Oral History Project interview

Format

1st ed.

Language

eng

Identifier

886841

871136511

Text

Transcription of Annotations
Notes on front endpaper: What's wrong with Seinfield. Bob Hope--a dear friend. What's wrong with Seinfield p. 57. Bill Bennett. On Contents pages, Lamb writes in the year each article was published. He also includes a list of publications and a listing of the number of articles each year. Underlinings/Notes: Underlinings: Lamb underlines O'Rourke's descriptive words for Andy. Names of Andy's subjects, advice from Kinsley, media targets, C-SPAN, JFK, etc. Notes: "Al Franken," "Mencken," "vacant men," "civility, wounded feelings, integrity of public discourse," "ASNE conventions," "J-schools & newspaper quality," "obit pages most widely read," "[G]ennifer," "Tom Wolfe," "New Journalism," "Barbra S.," "stars, abortion," "Bennett for President," "darker Bennett," "Bob Hope," "President," "Moyers," "Pat Robertson," "made a nice living," "people fail up," "Kay Graham party," "leather," "Beastmaster," "every 3rd word," "Peter, Paul and Mary," "the press," "court to K.C.," "President and the press," "the music," "Lee Greenwood," "Sonny Bono," "phone time," "need to be in constant touch," "e-mail," "irony of the Info age," "fruitcake Thoreau," "Ted Turner sat down," "first names," "diversity trainers," "American businessman," "I feel your pain," "I.U.," "Munchkin man," "Carl's," "I own Mr. Coffee," "Info superhighway," "Republican," "self-esteem," "Gloria Steinem," "Puritan," "disparage objective testing," "Dobie Gillis," "pledge week," "the sin of inequality."