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Fans of longtime 60 Minutes staple Rooney will find much to enjoy in his latest collection,
including excerpts from his two 1940s collaborations with fellow Stars and Stripes
correspondent Bud Hutton, as well as selections from more recent works such as My War (1995),
Common Nonsense (2002), Years of Minutes (2003), and Out of My Mind (2006). The problem with
the book, however, is that there's little here most fans haven't seen before. Apart from the
three extended pieces from the long-out-of-print Air Gunner (1944) and The Story of the Stars
and Stripes (1946), this is mainly a collection of short essays that have been published
previously. Also included are a sort of "greatest hits" of Rooney's musings on mundane matters
ranging from ice cream to wastebaskets to trips to the dump, occasionally broken up by more
serious pieces, such as his moving tributes to Harry Reasoner, E.B. White, and his own mother.
VERDICT Ardent fans will need to consider whether the inclusion of the rarer material from
the 1940s justifies the effort; for those less familiar with Rooney's oeuvre, this solid
introduction is well worth a look..William D. Walsh, Georgia State Univ., Atlanta

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