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James Brady Congratulates Tom Brokaw (And His Team Of Writers, Researchers, Fact-Checkers) On His New Bestseller

Remember when book writing was a lonely craft, back when the quill pen had given way to the portable typewriter and authors lived in garrets? … Back then, authors did their own research, actually went places, met people and filled notebooks with local color.

Welcome to the real world of today–celebrity books and group journalism. Do you truly believe that presidential candidates, movie stars, realityTV-show performers and NFL quarterbacks write their own books? Surely, you jest. Take Tom Brokaw … Unlike most “celebrity authors,” Brokaw is upfront and refreshingly candid in tackling this prickly question, and about the debt he owes to others [”Team Brokaw”] in writing his books.

[…] Years ago, Peter Jennings, Brokaw and Dan Rather were the iconic anchormen of our time. Today, Jennings is dead, Rather is an angry man suing the network that sacked him and Brokaw is happily retired and writing best-sellers. Why not? This is how books get written these days, and he’s got the formula.

–Excerpted from James Brady’s longer piece “Team Brokaw” appearing in today’s Forbes.com

Dec 7, 2007 · Link · 1 Reponse

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rubenlaracast says:

Tom Brokaw seems to be doing well with interesting books. Congratulations for him and his team.
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Posted: Dec 8, 2007 at 2:03 pm

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