Everyone Is Entitled to My Opinion

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Format is approximately 5.25 inches by 7.75 inches. xi, [1], 175, [3] pages. Slight wear to DJ edges, slight soiling to fore-edge. Signed by the author. David McClure Brinkley (July 10, 1920 - June 11, 2003) was an American newscaster for NBC and ABC in a career lasting from 1943 to 1997. From 1956 through 1970, he co-anchored NBC's top-rated nightly news program, The Huntley-Brinkley Report, with Chet Huntley and thereafter appeared as co-anchor or commentator on NBC Nightly News through the 1970s. In the 1980s and 1990s, Brinkley was host of the popular Sunday This Week program and a top commentator on election-night coverage for ABC News. Brinkley received ten Emmy Awards, three George Foster Peabody Awards, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. He wrote three books, including the 1988 bestseller Washington Goes to War, about how World War II transformed the nation's capital and Everyone Is Entitled to My Opinion, a selection of his commentaries. Derived from a Kirkus review: These thoughtful sign-offs (styled ``homilies'') from 15 years of This Week with David Brinkley never pretend to much--and they surely don't presume to anything as weighty as a raison d'àtre. Which makes for a graceful exercise for the author's following. The venerable Brinkley, who gave us his more substantive Memoirs last year, takes on the usual Establishment targets, In the aggregate, they constitute time- capsule commentary on the culture of the past decade and a half. The fastest-growing job in government (as of April 23, 1988) was that of prison guard; the IRS will be set up within one month after nuclear attack to collect taxes (this per some government memo); daylight saving time was moved up to the first Sunday in April due to lobbying by the Barbecue Industry Association. Brinkley pithily ranges well beyond the Washington bureaucracy. Clearly, his gift is evident when it comes to these closing thoughts.