Book description
The host of The Bob Edwards Show and Bob Edwards Weekend on Sirius XM
Radio, Bob Edwards became the first radio personality with a large
national audience to take his chances in the new field of satellite
radio. The programs' mix of long-form interviews and news
documentaries has won many prestigious awards.
For thirty years, Louisville native Edwards was the voice of National
Public Radio's daily newsmagazine programs, co-hosting All Things
Considered before launching Morning Edition in 1979. These programs
built NPR's national audience while also bringing Edwards to national
prominence. In 2004, however, NPR announced that it would be finding a
replacement for Edwards, inciting protests from tens of thousands of
his fans and controversy among his listeners and fellow broadcasters.
Today, Edwards continues to inform the American public with a voice
known for its sincerity, intelligence, and wit.
In A Voice in the Box: My Life in Radio, Edwards recounts his career
as one of the most important figures in modern broadcasting. He
describes his road to success on the radio waves, from his early days
knocking on station doors during college and working for American
Forces Korea Network to his work at NPR and induction into the
National Radio Hall of Fame in 2004. Edwards tells the story of his
exit from NPR and the launch of his new radio ventures on the XM
Satellite Radio network. Throughout the book, his sharp observations
about the people he interviewed and covered and the colleagues with
whom he worked offer a window on forty years of American news and on
the evolution of public journalism.
A Voice in the Box is an insider's account of the world of American
media and a fascinating, personal narrative from one of the most
iconic personalities in radio history.
""With good manners, an even disposition and an
occasional bit of offbeat good humor in this morning companion, plus
the willingness to awake before dawn for 25 years to bring us the
world with our coffee--well, you can see why we owe Bob Edwards a
lot."--David S. Broder" --
Bob Edwards is the author of Edward R. Murrow and the Birth of
Broadcast Journalism and Fridays with Red: A Radio Friendship. Edwards
has been awarded the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Award for radio
journalism, a George Foster Peabody Award for excellence in
broadcasting, and the Edward R. Murrow Award for outstanding
contributions to public radio. He lives in Arlington, Virginia.
