Good Day!: The Paul Harvey Story

by Paul Batura

Overview

Good Day! , the critically-acclaimed biography about the legendary Paul Harvey, is now in paperback! In this heartwarming book, author Paul J. Batura tells the all-American story of one of the best-known radio voices in history. From his humble beginnings to his unparalleled career of more than 50 years with ABC radio, Paul Harvey narrated America's story day by day, through wars and peace, through the threat of communism and the crumbling of old colonial powers, through consumer booms and eventual busts.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781596982062
Publisher:	Skyhorse Publishing
Publication date:	05/17/2011
Sold by:	SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format:	eBook
Pages:	291
File size:	477 KB

About the Author

PAUL J. BATURA is vice president of Communications for Focus on the Family. In his role, Batura is responsible for media and public relations, internal communications and community relations to the ministry's Colorado Springs neighbors. He has authored five books, including The Good Dad, Good Day! The Paul Harvey Story , and Mentored by the King: Arnold Palmer’s Success Lessons For Golf, Business and Life . Batura is a runner having completed 73 marathons. He and wife, Julie, have been married for 14 years and have three sons whom they had the privilege of adopting: Riley (10), Will (5) and Alex (3). Paul is an elder on Session at the First Presbyterian Church of Colorado Springs, CO.

Table of Contents

Foreword ix

Prologue: Taps at Reveille xi

Chapter 1 A Boy of Tulsa 1

Chapter 2 Riot 7

Chapter 3 An Incalculable Loss 17

Chapter 4 Stars in His Eyes 29

Chapter 5 Good Advice! 41

Chapter 6 On the Air 51

Chapter 7 Climbing the Ladder 55

Chapter 8 Meet Me in St. Louis 67

Chapter 9 Aloha 77

Chapter 10 Moving On 87

Chapter 11 Leaning into the Winds of War 95

Chapter 12 Hello, Chicago! 111

Chapter 13 From Sea to Shining Sea 121

Chapter 14 Britches on Barbed Wire 131

Chapter 15 Birth of a Salesman 143

Chapter 16 Drive It or Park It 153

Chapter 17 The Rest of the Story 165

Chapter 18 Give Me Some of That Old Time Religion 177

Chapter 19 Speechless 189

Chapter 20 An Angel Departs 201

Chapter 21 American Original 213

Epilogue: The Gentleman 223

Appendix: Remembering Paul Harvey 229

Acknowledgements 237

Notes 243

Index 281

What People are Saying About This

Ben Stein

"Paul Harvey: a voice of reason, a voice of common sense, an eloquent spokesman for the America and the Americans he loved. Open this book and read 'the rest of the story.'"--(Ben Stein, author, actor, economist, and journalist)

Mike Huckabee

"Beyond the story of a life well-lived, Good Day! captures the essence of this late radio pioneer. Mr. Harvey embodied our common American ideals."--(Mike Huckabee, FOX News political commentator and former governor of Arkansas)

James Dobson

"Harvey's legacy couldn't be in more capable hands."--(Dr. James Dobson, bestselling author, National Radio Hall of Fame broadcaster, and founder of Focus on the Family)

Hugh Hewitt

"Tens of millions of Americans got to 'know' Paul Harvey though they had never met or even corresponded, and the standard he established for news with personality will endure as one serious broadcast journalists will aspire to."--(Hugh Hewitt, host of the "Hugh Hewitt Show" and Executive Editor of Townhall.com)

Dan Vallie

"Paul Harvey had a voice and a broadcast you didn't want to turn off. Paul Batura has a book you won't want to put down. And like Harvey's news and comment, you don't want it to end."--(Dan Vallie, director of the Kellar Radio Talent Institute, Appalachian State University)

Editorial Reviews

When radio broadcaster Paul Harvey (1918-2009) stepped down from his daily ABC News and Comment show in 2008, he was nearly 90. Many of his listeners had not only grown up with him; they continued to listen to him after their retirement. Stentorian-voiced Harvey liked to say that he had grown up in a newsroom; as this biography shows, his claim was not far from wrong. He started working as a janitor and errand boy at Tulsa's KVOO in 1933, when he was just 14. Harvey's good spirits, Cold War fervency, and unpretentious ways established him as a media favorite. Good Day!, which borrows it title from Harvey's signature signoff, draws on anecdotes and tributes from high-profile friends and colleagues including Sean Hannity, James Dobson, and Mitt Romney.