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David Andelman has started a (free) Substack column Andelman Unleashed, so just click to subscribe. Also… On Dec 1 David was awarded France’s highest honor – the rank of chevalier (knight) of the Legion d’Honneur, for “a lifelong commitment to promoting better understanding between the people of France and the US”. (Learn more on page 8 of the Jan 2020 Silurian News.)
More news about Bill Diehl: Bill has a new book out, titled “50 Years of Celebrity Chatter: (Or The Time I Interviewed a Porn Star Naked,” in which he recounts his experiences interviewing various show-biz types during his years at ABC Radio Network and before that at WNEW. Besides the porn star Marilyn Chambers, of “Behind the Green Door” fame (she was naked, he wasn’t), he provides insights and anecdotes about a wide range of actors, including Tom Hanks, Bernadette Peters, Robin Williams, Harrison Ford, Sean Connery, Tony Curtiss and Mel Brooks. And there are photographs, in both the paperback and Kindle versions of the book, available on Amazon. David Andelman calls it “truly a great, fun ‘read.’ I commend it to all.”
Bill Diehl, a veteran radio broadcaster who spent much of his career with ABC covering entertainment industry personalities, is himself the subject of a new podcast about his career of almost five decades. He was interviewed by Jordan Rich, a popular Boston podcaster. Here is the link to the podcast: https://player.blubrry.com/id/76975387/.
Diehl, a long-time member of the Silurians’ Board of Governors, is the author of the 2017 memoir “Stay Tuned: My Life Behind the Mic.” It is available on Amazon. He is currently working on his second book, “Who Said That?” A follow-up to “Stay Tuned,” it is expected to be ready for publication in the fall.
Like many of us, Stephen B. Shepard has had some second thoughts. Unlike many of us, he’s written them down and put them in a new book, a memoir called — aptly — “Second Thoughts.” It’s available on Amazon either as a paperback or a Kindle version. Shepard started rethinking his life when he turned 80 a couple of years ago, and felt that “retrospection” might yield new understanding about such subjects as the family of his boyhood; the profound changes in journalism since he was a youngster; the Jewishness he once rejected; a greater appreciation that can come with re-reading “fiction that matters”; and a closer look at the meaning of male friendship. Shepard, former editor of BusinessWeek magazine, is the founding dean of the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, now known as the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY. Small parts of “Second Thoughts” have appeared in his two earlier books, “Deadlines and Disruptions” and “A Literary Journey to Jewish Identity.”
Just in time for the start of a new year, former Silurians president David A. Andelman has published his latest book, “A Red Line in the Sand,” now available on Amazon. A seasoned commentator who contributes frequently to CNN Opinion on global affairs and a former foreign correspondent for The New York Times and CBS News, Andelman combines history and global politics to help his readers better understand the exploding number of military, political, and diplomatic crises around the globe. Using original documentary research, previously classified material, interviews with key players, and reportage from more than 80 countries across five decades to help understand the growth, the successes and frequent failures that have shaped our world today. A former president of the Overseas Press Club and, most recently, the Silurians Press Club, Andelman has a long and renowned record that spans print and broadcast media as fluidly as it does national borders. Over the course of his career, he has traveled through and reported from more than 85 countries. A graduate of Harvard University and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, he is a Visiting Scholar at the Center on National Security at Fordham Law School and director of The Red Lines Project, a member of the Board of Contributors of USA Today, and a “Voices” columnist for CNN Opinion.
He is also the author of “The Peacemakers” and “A Shattered Peace: Versailles 1919 and the Price We Pay Today” and the co-author of “The Fourth World War.”