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Defending Baltimore Against Enemy Attack
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| The year is 1942, and while America is reeling from the first blows of WWII, Osgood is just a nine-year old boy living in Baltimore. As the war rages somewhere far beyond the boundaries of his hometown, he spends his days delivering newspapers, riding the trolley to the local amusement park, going to Orioles baseball games and goofing around with his young sister. With a sharp eye for detail, Osgood captures the texture of life in a very different era, a time before the polio vaccine and the atomic bomb. Defending Baltimore Against Enemy Attack is a gloriously funny and nostalgic slice of American life and a moving look at WWII from the perspective of a child far away from the fighting, but very conscious of the reverbations.
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Funny Letters From Famous People
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| This lightweight yet un-fluffy collection of humorous letters is divided into sections from politicians, writers and show business figures, organized chronologically. Groucho Marx's wit is sublime and sometimes bawdy, but who would have expected double entendres in the correspondence of George Washington? Some of the letters, indeed, such as those from an aging and convicted Oscar Wilde and an ailing but resilient Frederic Chopin are by men trying to laugh in order to avoid weeping. In the end, this male-heavy book reveals less humor and more pain than the letter writers intended, which may be something of which old school CBS anchor Osgood is aware. (from: Publisher’s Weekly, 2003) |
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See You on the Radio
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| These mini-essays (collected from Osgood’s radio broadcasts) touch on such topics as the "Lightning Strike Convention," attended by people struck by lightning whose lives have been changed in ways undetectable by science, the Wash Your Hands effort by Massachusetts doctors to get people to save lives and stop the spread of diseases by lathering up on a regular basis, and a 7-Eleven manager who was fired for catching a thief in his store, a violation of company policy. Sometimes, he weighs in lightly but sensitively on current events, such as when he meditates on the difficulties involved in deciding what should be put into the history books, or when he laments the ways political correctness can distort the English language.
(from: Publishers Weekly, 1999) |
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The Osgood Files
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| Journalist Osgood has covered a multitude of subjects--from bow ties to US defense spending. Now he lends his wit and insights to this collection of his best, mostly original and never-before-broadcast material.
(from: Ingram) |
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