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Making Words Dance Reflections on Red Smith, Journalism, and Writing

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ISBN-10: 0740790099

ISBN-13: 9780740790096

Edition: 2010

Authors: Robert Schmuhl, Terence Smith

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Making Words Dance features lectures by fifteen of the country's most respected journalists and writers given as part of the lecture series at the University of Notre Dame honoring award-winning columnist Red Smith. Edited by Robert Schmuhl, director of the Red Smith Lecture in Journalism since its inception in 1983, the collection offers assessments of the news business and writing by Ted Koppel, Frank McCourt, Jim Lehrer, Judy Woodruff, David Remnick, and James Reston, among others. Notably, the book also includes the final lecture on journalism given by Tim Russert before his untimely death in 2008.
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Book details

List price: $24.50
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Publication date: 4/6/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 6.30" wide x 9.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English

Robert Schmuhl holds the Walter H. Annenberg-Edmund P. Joyce Chair in American Studies and Journalism at the University of Notre Dame. He is the director of the John W. Gallivan Program in Journalism, Ethics & Democracy, also at Notre Dame, and the author or editor of ten other books.

Terence Smith, Red Smith's son and a graduate of the University of Notre Dame, is an award-winning journalist who has been a reporter, a foreign correspondent, and an editor for the New York Times, CBS News, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, National Public Radio, and a variety of Web sites.

Preface
Introduction: Rare Red Smith
Prologue: Remembering Red
Sports and Politics
"When I Was an Athlete"
Finding an Authentic Voice
A Response and Some Reflections
The Discussion Period
"Harry Truman Returns"
The Art of the Craft
Questions and Answers
"And a Grasp of Millionaires"
The View from the Road
Questions and Answers
"Person to Person"
90 Feet Is Perfection
A Response
Sportswriting: A Woman's View
"The Babe Was Always a Boy-One of a Kind"
Writing for the Reader
Questions and Answers
"Good, Clean Fun"
Who Killed the Foreign Correspondent?
Questions and Answers
"Red Trotsky Talks to Red Smith"
How Muhammad Ali Changed the Press
Questions and Answers
"I'm the Greatest"
Journalism: It's as Easy as ABC
Questions and Answers
"After Fifty Years"
Returning to Our Roots
Questions and Answers
"Young Man with Flyrod"
"A Mighty Angler Before the Lord"
From Copybook to Computer: What You Write on and How You Do It
"Jim Thurber"
Whom Do Journalists Work For?
"A Very Pious Story"
Are Journalists Obsolete?
Questions and Answers
"Miracle of Coogan's Bluff"
When Politicians Meet the Press
"Writing Less-and Better?"
Acknowledgments