You should have seen me -- I was mentioning the book to anyone who would listen and I was ready to follow his strategy right away.
To a degree that surprised me, they liked to quiz me about text-book-aberrant behavior and about my unhappy childhood, thinking, once they heard the stories, that this was the way to my heart.
When I got to Washington in 1993, in the spring of that year, from Moscow, a colleague of mine handed me that book -- it has come out the year before -- as I began to cover politics, and it was the best read imaginable.
It's not enough if you say, for example, that we've offered a health care plan and I look up -- this is just under the section that you've just provided me, or the book that you just provided me -- summary of GOP health care reform bill: The GOP plan will lower health care premiums for American families and small businesses, addressing America's number-one priority for health reform.
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Mr McKeever was the author of two books - Give Me Shelter and Give Me Heroes - and was working on a third book Give Me 28 Days.
This all reminds me of the e-book discussion wait a few more years, just wait and then boom, 2010 was the year.
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When I turned 12, I was given a hand-me-down guitar and a chord book.
When I'm traveling, my publishers book me in high-design, high-tech hotels, which I normally enjoy to the hilt.
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Ted Turner escaped court after he fired his fellow CNN founder, but Schonfeld nonetheless exacted some vengeance in a tell-all book, Me and Ted Against the World (HarperCollins, 2001).
An eye-tracking device allowed me to spot Wally in a Where's Wally book - and the page flipped over.
That's when I realized I had entered the uncharted (for me) territory of second-person Meera would address the book to her son, as an account, an exculpation, of their life together.
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About five years ago, the general, who had read my book, Start with No, invited me to discuss business-leadership and negotiation topics for a taped television program, in Tampa, FL. And because we were both veterans, we shared a great conversation afterwards.
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My new book on authentic communications, Trust Me, was published by Jossey-Bass in January 2009.
His defiance reminded me of something he had once said about Conan the Barbarian, the comic-book hero.
This week saw the launch of a book co-written by Mr Davet called Sarkozy Has Killed Me.
Her voice as it comes through in her writing, so personal, so visionary, so humorous and crystal-clear in its purpose, has guided me as to how to write this book.
Just thinking about him with a book in one hand and a huge grin on his white-bearded face made me smile.
Even so, I got a book flung at me for talking in class by our inspirational English teacher, an ex-army man.
And one of the things I tried to do that year was to begin work on rewriting what we had done for Congress as a book that I would put out and my co-author who would work with me on the project was my former teacher and collaborator, Karl Brunner.
When I began research on my book, which will be published by McGraw-Hill in the fall, someone asked me if Keynes had fallen out of favor in the last 30 years because he had gay affairs when he was young.
This is all the more sad to me because my first book was published this past fall and each of the book signings I gave was co-sponsored by a different independent bookstore.
Before a recent business trip to Israel, someone handed me a copy of "Start-Up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle, " a book by Dan Senor and Saul Singer about Israel's culture of innovation and entrepreneurialism.
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