The No-Spin Zone: Confrontations with the Powerful and Famous in America (Hardcover)

by Bill O'Reilly (Author) "If you are thirty-five or older, chances are good that your childhood in America was pretty much like mine, no matter where you grew up..." (more)
Key Phrases: spin zone, humble correspondent, rap world, Jesse Jackson, New York, Bill Clinton (more...)

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly
The audience of Fox's top-rated cable news talk show The O'Reilly Factor and of the bestselling book by the same name know that this explosive anchor can be articulate, bombastic, scornful, witty, iconoclastic, passionate, persuasive and sarcastic ("Can you feel Gary Condit's pain?"). When conducting interviews, O'Reilly, a two-time Emmy winner with 25 years reporting experience, delivers tough questions and corrosive counterpoints. In the No-Spin Zone (originally conceived for his TV show), "lies are rejected and equivocations are mocked." "All I ask is for powerful people to respond honestly to the questions, and if they can't, explain why," says O'Reilly. Here he excerpts past interviews with various memorable opponents James Carville (on Bill Clinton), Dr. Laura (on working mothers), former surgeon general Dr. Joycelyn Elders (on sex education), Puff Daddy (on rap), Susan Sarandon (on police brutality), Al Sharpton (on boycotts) and insightfully introduces each, mulling over the issue or providing background. To cover TV sleaze and violence, he splices interviews (Steve Allen, Howdy Doody's Buffalo Bob) into his own terse text. The same treatment is applied to the death penalty (George W. Bush, Bianca Jagger), taxes (Mario Cuomo, GAO head David Walker) and other issues. He saves the best for last Dan Rather on news stories the media overlooks, prefaced by O'Reilly's own memories of becoming "a 'dead man walking' at CBS News." (On-sale: Oct. 16) Forecast: O'Reilly's TV ratings continue to rise, and the show's "No-Spin Zone" title will grab book buyers. With simultaneous CD and large-print editions, and an e-book due in November, total sales should be astronomical.
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From School Library Journal
O'Reilly tries to top his best-selling The O'Reilly Factor with more acerbic bons mots on life in America.
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 208 pages
• Publisher: Broadway; 1st edition (October 16, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0767908481
• ISBN-13: 978-0767908481
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.2 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (461 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #319,471 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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26 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars This book is thick of repeating subjects, February 22, 2004

By	Mike (Linden,NJ) - See all my reviews

As I read the negative reviews, some sound like spitting images from that of Maddox. But guess what, Maddox has the general feeling about this book.

My friend lent me this book to read. And no, Maddox's destruction of Bill's character didnt provoke me. It was that of how O'Reilly felt about Rap and his arrogant comments towards rapper Ludacris. Put it this way, Bill O'Reilly is nothing more then a conceided biggot who believes that what he 'feels' is the right way and the only way. And his book is nothing more then a transcript of past crap spat out from his show. But dont get me wrong, this book is good enough for something, evening out my pool table for starters.

Should you buy this book? Go right ahead, its a page turner up until page 76. Thats when it becomes a stomach turner. But if curiousity is the best of you, be my guest and destroy your inner child by buying it

47 of 54 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars maddox was right O'Reilly is a big blubbering vagina, October 18, 2004

By	Martin Borman "localloadie" (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews

this book was nothing but crap, and i'd like to use an S word but luckily amazon.com wont publish it. anyways i think anybody except diehard mentally ill republicans would think this book is worthy of burning. it is pure filth i'm ashamed i read it and i'd just like to call bill o'reilly the name he calls many people expecting it to be the end all be all of insults. you ideologue.

34 of 38 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Just awful, November 30, 2004

By	Abby Wade "Closet moderate" - See all my reviews

If by interview you mean asking riduclous leading questions and then not allowing them interviewee to answer, then I guess he is interviewing people.

Just like in every other book he writes, O'Reilly just comes off as a pompus jerk who thinks he is better than his reader, those who oppose him, and, well, everyone.

If you want to know my real opinion on Bill O'Reilly visit "The Best Page in the Universe." I usually don't agree with Maddox, but I do when it comes to Bill O'Reilly. (I have to warn you that the web page I mentioned contains harsh language.)

As for this book, I read it. It was painful. Even if I agreed with his ideas (and I do agree with some) his writing style is awful. He just sounds like the long-winded, babbling relative we all try to avoid during the holidays.