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Andy Rooney's wit and insights at their best. If you like Rooney's sense of humor and wit you will love this book. One of his best (if not the best).
This is a collection of essays written by Andy Rooney for his spot on 60 Minutes, and his wit and sarcasm convey amazingly well. Reading these essays, I often could hear Andy's voice. Most of these essays were written in the 1970's, and some of them are quite dated. However, most of them stand up to the test of time quite well, and still hit their mark. If you enjoy Mr. Rooney's irreverent sense of humor and biting sarcasm, you should enjoy this collection.
A few minutes with Andy Rooney, by Andy Rooney
Loved watching and listening to this reporter on TV sunday nights. So many things that make you say 'hmmm' I've always wondered about that.
I received this book from National Library Service for my BARD (Braille Audio Reading Device).
Andy Rooney brings that famous dry wit from CBS/60 MINUTES to these pages in this dated but still-funny collection from the late-1970's/early 1980's. Many of his short chapters/essays will put a smile on your face, but a couple are quite somber. Rooney offers his views (and at times his annoyances) on houses, dirty words, D-day, directions, soap, ratings, etc. This is one of several books by this often irreverent, but never irrelevant sage. At this writing, this curmudgeon-of-everyday-things is still going strong in his 90th year.
I originally sought this book out after the first time I read Andy's much later book, "Years of Minutes." He made a curious complaint about his life and reputation, talking about how a person's fame is rarely in sync with their best work. And he said that it bothered him that he was going to be remembered for his "60 Minutes" commentaries when the best work that he did was a series of documentaries he made for CBS in the 1970s. I had no idea he had ever done such a gig...

I stumbled upon this book in a used book shop; it's relatively early into his tenure on "60 Minutes" (only about three years or so into the gig) but consists of most of what he had written for television to that point. Before delivering essays himself, he wrote them for Harry Reasoner to deliver. This book is a collection of essays that he wrote for himself and for Reasoner. (My one and only gripe with this book is that he doesn't note which essays are which. I'm sure it doesn't make any difference but it left me curious.)

But in addition to essays, I was delighted to find that the book contains complete transcripts of three of his documentaries, "Mr. Rooney Goes to Work," "Mr. Rooney Goes to Washington," and "Mr. Rooney Goes to Dinner." The documentaries about work and dinner can adequately be described as really, really long versions of his "60 Minutes" pieces. The Washington documentary is a VERY funny indictment of government waste, chronicling Rooney's efforts to identify the nearly 3 million employees of the federal government and figure out exactly what they do (among the highlights are a list of incomprehensible and redundant job titles for employees in one department, and an exasperating phone call to illustrate how much red tape Rooney had to deal with while producing the documentary).

Another gem found in the book is "An Essay on War," a commentary that Rooney wrote in 1971 for Harry Reasoner that CBS refused to air. Rooney quit, and promptly went to PBS to deliver the essay himself on a comedy show, "The Great American Dream Machine." The essay is actually a pretty powerful one, examining the dual nature of human beings--we all want peace, and yet, war seems to bring out our best qualities.

If you're a Rooney fan, this is a must-own collection. I suspect the man himself would have considered this his best work.
I like his essays on a lot of different things, ejoyable