Our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy have changed. We think you'll like them better this way.

CHARLES ROBBINS author THE ACCOMPLICE with IAN WILLIAMS

  • Broadcast in Books
SyndicatedNews

SyndicatedNews

×  

Follow This Show

If you liked this show, you should follow SyndicatedNews.
h:23524
s:4076827
archived

CHARLES ROBBINS longed to write professionally from the time his grade-school classmates aspired to play professional baseball, voyage to the moon, or fight fires.

Robbins earned a master’s from Columbia University, covered police & politics for the Omaha World-Herald then served as a political reporter, columnist & editor.

In 1992, he moved to Washington as press secretary for a Pennsylvania congressman. Five months later, the congressman lost his seat – Robbins was not solely responsible – and Robbins landed with Iowa Congressman Fred Grandy, a Harvard honors grad and classical stage actor who was best known as a star of the TV sitcom The Love Boat.

With instructions to “bridge the Gopher gap; to show Iowans there’s a long-pants version of Fred Grandy,” Robbins ran the press shop for Grandy’s gubernatorial campaign. They nearly unseated a three-term incumbent.

He tells stories about Arlen Specter, Tom Daschle, Joe Kline, Lyndon Johnson's speech writer, Grandy & others...

CATSKILL REVIEW OF BOOKS AT SYNDICATEDNEWS.NET  
IAN WILLIAMS, HOST  
KEVIN GREF, PRODUCER  
RECORDED AT WJFF STUDIOS, JEFFERSONVILLE, NY


JOHN McEUEN CEO, SYNDICATEDNEWS.NET
RUTHIE DiTUCCI, PRES. SYNDICATEDNEWS.NET


ORDER BOOK IMMEDIATELY AT www.SyndicatedNews.NET

 

 

 

Facebook comments

Available when logged-in to Facebook and if Targeting Cookies are enabled