Russell Baker - Live by publicity, you'll probably die by...

Live by publicity, you'll probably die by publicity.

Biography

Author Profession: Journalist

Nationality: American

Born: August 14, 1925

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Die, Live, Publicity, You

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Few expected very much of Franklin Roosevelt on Inauguration Day in 1933. Like Barack Obama seventy-six years later, he was succeeding a failed Republican president, and Americans had voted for change. What that change might be Roosevelt never clearly said, probably because he himself didn't know.

Change Day Never Know

It was clear soon after his election that Obama, like FDR, wanted to start dealing with the economic crisis immediately after his inauguration.

Election Start Crisis Like

Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century.

Sparkle Literature English Brilliant

The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist.

You Worst Being About

Caution: These verses may be hazardous to your solemnity.

Your May Caution Hazardous

Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.

You Parenting Children Grow

Except for politics, no business is scrutinized more exhaustively than journalism.

Politics Business Journalism More

Journalism talk is part of the nonstop background noise of American life.

Life Journalism American Talk

An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.

Education Best Dead Information

What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most Americans, yet he manages not only to live there but also to grow trees and cockroaches right on the premises.

Home Grow Live New

Gerald Boyd was a classic specimen of the self-made man. Born poor, he worked and studied his way up out of poverty under the guidance of his widowed grandmother.

Man Poverty Way Born

Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.

Nature You Power Summer Like

A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump off the Godfather for not going to church on Sunday.

Together Church Bad Group

When it comes to cars, only two varieties of people are possible - cowards and fools.

Car People Fools Only

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