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The Rush Limbaugh Story: Talent on Loan from God : An Unauthorized Biography - Hardcover
From Kirkus Reviews
Lightweight bio of Rush Hudson Limbaugh III, the heartland eminence whose glib wit and rough charms have made him a heavyweight champion of tory causes. With no help (or hindrance) from his subject, Colford (a media columnist for Newsday) has cobbled together a once-over-lightly account of Limbaugh's life that, among other shortcomings, provides superfluous detail on broadcast-industry minutiae. The author first tracks the man from Cape Girardeau, Missouri, in his determined efforts to forge a career in radio. Having failed as a top-40 DJ and spent five unfulfilling years in promotion for baseball's Kansas City Royals, Limbaugh made a name for himself as host of an afternoon talk show in Sacramento--an act taken national in 1988 by a crafty packager. The rest, so to speak, is history: The immensely popular college dropout (who turns 42 this year) now reaches over four million listeners daily with his brashly conservative radio commentaries. He also presides over a half-hour syndicated TV show and, of course, has written the bestselling The Way Things Ought to Be (1992). While Colford expresses some grudging admiration for Limbaugh--whose jocular broadsides challenge c
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The Rush Limbaugh Story: Talent on Loan from God: An Unauthorized Biography
Paul D. Colford. St. Martin's Press, $19.95 (242pp) ISBN 978-0-312-09906-0
Colford, whose weekly radio column appears in New York Newsday and the Los Angeles Times , tracked down Limbaugh's past shows (and past wife) to fashion an entertaining, balanced biography of this outsized phenomenon of the airwaves. Although the book is unauthorized, ``Rusty'' did not stop the author from interviewing his mother, brother and others close to him. We follow Limbaugh as he defies his father and leaves his Missouri home to find work as a disc jockey, failing time and again before striking it rich in 1988. Now at age 42, he can boast of talk shows and a bestselling book, The Way Things Ought to Be , as well as millions of fans, including former President Bush, for whose reelection Limbaugh campaigned. Observing that his subject seems to have nothing ``resembling a personal life,'' Colford depicts Limbaugh with a sympathy his detractors in liberal political circles aren't likely to share. Photos not seen by PW . (Oct.)
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Reviewed on: 08/30/1993
Genre: Nonfiction
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Rush Limbaugh
American civic commentator (1951–2021)
For his grandad and legislator, see Smash Limbaugh Sr. For rendering radio event, see The Rush Limbaugh Show.
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