Robert MacNeil, Author Doubleday $22.5 (466p) ISBN 978-0-385-42019-8
MacNeil, co-anchor of the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour on PBS-TV, has always seemed an earnest, traditional sort, and that's the kind of first novel he has written. It is also, however, warm-hearted, has a thoroughly original background and setting, and...
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Robert MacNeil, Author Penguin Books $12.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-14-010401-1
``Not quite chronological, the PBS-TV Newshour presenter's account roves fondly back and forth between family memories and his love of words and language,'' observed PW . Photos. 75,000 first printing; author tour. (Mar.)
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Robert MacNeil, Author Viking Books $18.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-670-81871-6
PBS-TV Newshour presenter MacNeil coauthored the book and TV series The Story of English. Here he tells how, as a child, he began a lifelong fascination with languagethe crisp sea-words of Treasure Island , sonorous Bible phrases, Chaucer's...
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Robert MacNeil, Author Nan A. Talese $23.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-385-46952-4
Public-TV newsman/anchor MacNeil has already shown off his novelistic skills with the admirable Burden of Desire, and his new novel, if not quite so penetrating, is an even more compelling read. David Lyon, Canadian consulate-general in New York, is
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Robert MacNeil, Author Nan A. Talese $24.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-385-42020-4
MacNeil's previous fictional efforts, Burden of Desire and The Voyage, both struck out in unexpected directions; this one, however, is just the kind of novel you would expect from the former PBS news anchor. The decline of journalistic standards in...
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Robert MacNeil, Author Nan A. Talese $25 (224p) ISBN 978-0-385-50781-3
In April 1997, Montreal-born, Halifax-bred PBS anchorman MacNeil, of The MacNeil-Lehrer NewsHour, raised his right hand in a Manhattan INS office and swore to""renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state,...
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Robert MacNeil, Author, William Cran, Author Nan A. Talese $23.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-385-51198-8
The English language is not a thing but a process, not an archaic institution but an experiment that is constantly evolving and re-invigorating itself. According to language experts MacNeil and Cran, no one should understand this better than...
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Robert MacNeil, Author, MacNeil, Author Mariner Books $22.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-15-600463-3
Former TV newsman MacNeil's second novel concerns a diplomat whose career is threatened by the mysterious dissappearance of his longtime mistress. (Oct.)
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