Bill Geist
Autore di Way Off the Road: Discovering the Peculiar Charms of Small Town America
Sull'Autore
Bill Geist has been a correspondent for CBS News Sunday Morning since 1987. He has won two Emmys for his work on the show. He wrote several books including Little League Confidential, The Big Five-Oh, Fore! Play, and Way off the Road. He co-wrote Good Talk, Dad: The Birds and the Bees... and Other mostra altro Conversations We Forgot to Have with his son Willie Geist. (Bowker Author Biography) Bill Geist lives in New Jersey. (Publisher Provided) mostra meno
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Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1945-05-10
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Champaign, Illinois, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Champaign, Illinois, USA (birth)
New York, New York, USA - Istruzione
- University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (BA ∙ Communications ∙ 1968)
University of Missouri (MA ∙ Communications ∙ 1971) - Attività lavorative
- journalist
television correspondent
author
combat photographer - Relazioni
- Geist, Willie (son)
- Organizzazioni
- United States Army
Chicago Tribune
The New York Times
CBS - Premi e riconoscimenti
- Emmy (2)
Marist College Lowell Thomas Award (2007)
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- Opere
- 11
- Opere correlate
- 1
- Utenti
- 663
- Popolarità
- #38,038
- Voto
- 3.5
- Recensioni
- 30
- ISBN
- 57
- Lingue
- 2
This is a charming memoir of the author’s teen-year summers spent working at his uncle’s resort at Lake of the Ozarks in the mid 1960s. He was a busboy, a bellhop, a dishwasher, a janitor, a kids’ counselor, a groundskeeper, a chauffeur, a delivery man. He did any and all distasteful jobs and enjoyed the company of a bevy of lovely young women who served as housemaids and/or waitresses. The pay was abysmal, but they got free room and board, a fair quantity of beer, and, perhaps most importantly, a certain sense of independence. They also occasionally got pretty nice tips, which virtually all the staff used to help pay for their college educations. They made some life-long friendships, and a few romances led to marriage.
While my current sensibilities were sometimes appalled at the behavior these teens engaged in, I had to admit to fond memories of some of my own summer jobs, and especially of the summer staff I met at a local lake resort when I was singing with a band who was performing at the resort supper club one summer. Ah, the indestructability of youth!… (altro)