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Sunday, June 15, 2008
Not exactly law - "C-SPAN founder's life is an open book"
Well, I've just ordered my copy.
Maureen Groppe of the Indianapolis Star Washington Bureau today reviews a biography of C-SPAN founder, and Lafayette native, Brian Lamb. The story begins:
WASHINGTON -- C-SPAN founder Brian Lamb, who conducted 800 author interviews while hosting the network's "Booknotes" program, can't imagine that anyone would want to read a book about him."I really don't think I am very interesting," the Lafayette native told his biographer. "I'm just too normal, and normality seldom sells."
Nonetheless, the spotlight-averse Lamb agreed to cooperate with biographer Stephen E. Frantzich because "I don't want it done, but I assume it will be, and I would rather have you do it."
Not only is Frantzich a former C-SPAN consultant, but the political science professor also co-authored "The C-SPAN Revolution," a history of the network.
Frantzich's biography, "Founding Father: How C-SPAN's Brian Lamb Changed Politics in America" (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 208 pages, $22.95) includes some of that history but also delivers details about Lamb, including:
Posted by Marcia Oddi on June 15, 2008 08:10 AM
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