Books by Charles Osgood and Complete Book Reviews
Charles Osgood, Author . Hyperion $19.95 (160p) ISBN 978-1-4013-0023-4
Osgood's memoir of growing up in Baltimore's Liberty Heights neighborhood circa 1942 echoes with the same measured cadence and disarmingly simple structure that the anchor uses in his CBS radio and TV broadcasts. The Emmy Award–winning
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Charles Osgood, Author William Morrow & Company $14.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-688-06713-7
Taking the fear out of public speaking is the aim of this breezy book and, while the number 101 may be hyperbolic, TV anchorman Osgood (There's Nothing I Wouldn't Do If You Would Be My POSSLQ) does have numerous suggestions to render the ordeal...
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Charles Osgood, Author Putnam Publishing Group $19.95 (250p) ISBN 978-0-399-13569-9
Most of the pieces in this amusing volume are selected from Osgood's syndicated columns rather than from his better-known discourses on various TV programs. Here he opens on a note of entertaining self-deprecation, detailing his stint filling in for
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Charles Osgood, Author Putnam Publishing Group $23.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-399-14542-1
Osgood is known as a winning, whimsical humorist of the airwaves, and if these 100-odd commentaries (often culminating in verse) recorded for CBS Radio over the past eight years are any indication, that reputation is well deserved. The mini-essays...
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