{"product_id":"of-course-you-can-have-ron-cohen-9781490782409","title":"Of Course You Can Have Ice Cream for Breakfast!: A Journalist's Uncommon Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003eAs Managing Editor of United Press International and Executive Editor of Gannett News Service during a 40-year-journalism career, Ron Cohen has been directly responsible for instantly bringing the top headlines every day to hundreds of millions of readers, viewers and listeners in every corner of the globe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAssassinations, impeachments, terrorist attacks, elections, wars, disasters both natural and man-made -- these constitute the 24-hour-a-day breaking news cycle that helped make Cohen one of the world's most influential journalists. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn these days of political turmoil and allegations of \"fake news,\" this highly personal book offers a chance to see and feel how it's been to work in a changing media universe -- with constant challenges, excitement and pressure to perform, plus the thrills, satisfaction and frustration that make the news business at once rewarding and exhausting.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow, shifting gears a bit, Cohen has written \"Of Course You Can Have Ice Cream for Breakfast! A Journalist's Uncommon Memoir.\" It is sweet, humorous, quirky, serious -- a sort of written\/oral history of his 80 years on Planet Earth. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith this collection of stories, Ron tells you about the fascinating characters he has encountered along his journey, as well about a rich North Jersey Italian-Jewish heritage dating back to the early 20th Century when mixed marriages were rare -- and often frowned upon.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe stories aim at his four young grandkids -- whom he cannot and simply will not deny \"Ice Cream for Breakfast\" -- in hopes they will get to better know (and remember) a grandfather who is geographically distant if emotionally close.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut it also is for the 70 million grandparents in America and for \"kids of all ages\" looking for a grin, a sigh, a belly-laugh -- even an occasional throat lump.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCohen's previous book, \"Down to the Wire: UPI's Fight for Survival\" (McGraw-Hill, 1989) was named Best Business Book of the Year by Business Week magazine, and won, among other awards, the coveted Gold Medal for Journalism History from the Society of Professional Journalists.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ron Cohen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1490782400\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781490782409\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Trafford Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/13\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 398\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.62lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/0001\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/15\/2017","brand":"Ron Cohen","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48445173661951,"sku":"9781490782409","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4b37750c-963b-4eb3-9fb0-0ebdf2d1ecc1.jpg?v=1777217001","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/of-course-you-can-have-ron-cohen-9781490782409","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}