Paul Harvey Aurandt
Born: September 4, 1918 in Tulsa, Oklahoma
Pen Name: Paul Harvey Connection to Illinois: Aurandt moved to Chicago in June 1944 and lived there until retiring to Arizona. Biography: Aurandt, who went by the hame of Paul Harvey, was a Chicago radio broadcaster for the ABC Radio Networks and a newspaper columnist. His syndicated newspaper column was at one time carried in 300 newspapers. His ''News and Comment'' was broadcast on weekday mornings and mid-days, and at noon on Saturdays, as were his famous ''The Rest of the Story'' segments. Over his 57 years on national radio, his programs were carried by 1,200 radio stations, plus an additional 400 stations of American Forces Radio. At his peak, his listening audience was estimated at 25 million people a week. He was called ''the voice of Middle America'' and ''the voice of the Silent Majority''. 'Paul Harvey was the most listened to man in the history of radio,' said Bruce DuMont, president of the Museum of Broadcast Communications and host of the nationally syndicated ''Beyond the Beltway''. 'There is no one who will ever come close to him.'
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Paul Harvey Aurandt on WorldCat : http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=paul++harvey+aurandt
Selected Titles
| Destiny : ISBN: 0553243640 OCLC: 11107026 Bantam Books, Toronto ; 1984, ©1983. |
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Destiny : ISBN: 0688022057 OCLC: 9995081 Morrow, New York : 1983. Stories/ Begins with the burial of John Scott Harrison. His body was stolen by grave robbrs. Whether the body snatcher5s knew it or not, the body they pulled belonged to the only man history remembers as the son of one U.S. president and the father of another! |
| More of Paul Harvey's The rest of the story ISBN: 0553145940 OCLC: 7426245 Bantam Books, Toronto ; 1981, ©1980. |
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| More of Paul Harvey's The rest of the story / ISBN: 0688036694 OCLC: 6016325 W. Morrow, New York : 1980. |
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Paul Harvey's The rest of the story ISBN: 0553259628 OCLC: 4225154 Bantam Books, New York : 1978, ©1977. |