{"product_id":"telling-others-what-to-think","title":"Telling Others What to Think","description":"A Pulitzer Prize-winning editorialist and a former syndicated columnist, Edwin M. Yoder Jr. spent forty years as a newspaper journalist. \u003ci\u003eTelling Others What to Think,\u003c\/i\u003e he writes, is about \"\"an education in its broadest sense,\"\" the experiences and personal influences that formed him.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYoder became a full-time editorial writer at the early age of twenty-four, and he traces his aptitude for punditry to the southern storytelling tradition, a long family heritage of scholars and schoolteachers, and his father's being \"\"opinionated\"\" - in the better sense of that word. Journalism, Yoder says, was a way to be a writer and still put bread on the table, and throughout his career, he would excel as a prose craftsman.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfter graduating from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - where he edited the Daily Tar Heel - he studied at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar and then returned to his home state, a place celebrated for lively newspaper editorial writing. First at the \u003ci\u003eCharlotte News\u003c\/i\u003e and then at the \u003ci\u003eGreensboro Daily News,\u003c\/i\u003e Yoder took on the Birch Society and segregation, among other targets. Throughout his memoir, he credits unbidden good fortune - rather than any planned path - with shaping his destiny. The call to go to Washington, D.C. - a \"\"Mecca for journalists\"\" - as editorial page editor of the \u003ci\u003eStar\u003c\/i\u003e was more good luck in Yoder's view. He won a Pulitzer at the Star in 1979, and when that paper folded in 1981, he joined the Washington Post Writers Group as a syndicated columnist. For fifteen years his column appeared in many major regional newspapers around the country and abroad in London and Paris.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn his book, Yoder is most compelling when describing the pleasures and hazards of maintaining professional and social relationships with people in the arena of politics and public life - including \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e editorial page editor Meg Greenfield, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell, writer and editor Willie Morris, and Georgetown University president Father Timothy Healy. Circumspect, forthright, and generous in his reflections, Yoder the man and the pundit prove to be the same. An appendix presents a portfolio of his past columns, sage advice to the aspiring opinion writer, and thoughts on the tabloidization of news in recent years. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA rich and intriguing personal story of someone whose job it was to comment on the events of the day, Ed Yoder's \u003ci\u003eTelling Others What to Think\u003c\/i\u003e speaks eloquently as well of the wider world of American politics and culture.","brand":"Louisiana State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55807226806616,"sku":"9780807130339","price":49.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780807130339.jpg?v=1779516072","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/telling-others-what-to-think","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}