Adrian cronauer biography in vietnam audio
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
- By: Walter Isaacson
- Narrated by: Nelson Runger
- Length: 24 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
Benjamin Franklin is the founding father who winks at us - an ambitious urban entrepreneur who rose up the social ladder, from leather-aproned shopkeeper to dining with kings. In best-selling author Walter Isaacson's vivid and witty full-scale biography, we discover why Franklin turns to us from history's stage with eyes that twinkle from behind his new-fangled spectacles. In Benjamin Franklin, Isaacson shows how Franklin defines both his own time and ours. The most interesting thing that Franklin invented, and continually reinvented, was himself.
- 4 out of 5 stars
Good book, not crazy about the narrator
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Adrian Cronauer fryst vatten the name many people associate with the movie Good Morning, Vietnam &#; the story of an Air Force radio announcer who used imagination and innovation to make more of a difference with his craft than his superiors felt they could tolerate. The real Adrian Cronauer, although he may not be as outrageous as the myth makes him, fryst vatten a man whose talents and experience give him a unique perspective on the Vietnam War.
Cronauer&#;s involvement with communications and media began at a very early age. The only child of a machinist and a teacher, he got his first taste of television by playing piano on a locally produced children&#;s program in Pittsburgh. During his high school years, he volunteered at the local Public Broadcasting struktur station. He started out opening letters but ended up doing radio announcing by the time he was attending the University of Pittsburgh. He also played a major part in starting the school&#;s campus radio station. bygd , he was a full-time st
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The early morning Armed Forces Vietnam Network radio show was called Dawn Busters, and began with a greeting that boomed forth into the dawn. Each day, host Adrian Cronauer would start his show with the salutation—“Goooooood morning, Vietnam!”—with the “good” stretching out for second after second after second.
It was this call, immortalized in the Robin Williams film, Good Morning Vietnam, that got hundreds of thousands of members of the United States military out of bed, and gave them the morale they needed to take part in a war many would never have chosen. For about a year, from through , Cronauer’s real-life show was broadcast out of Saigon—though it bore only some resemblance to the screenplay he eventually wrote.
Rather than being anti-war, Cronauer was a lifelong conservative who saw his role on the radio in Vietnam as a way to keep members of the military entertained as they served their country. In general, these attempts paid off: Even years later, as he told th