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Editorial Review:
The year was 1957, the month September, and I had just turned eight years old. Dwight Eisenhower was President, but in my life it was the diminutive, intense Sister Mary Lurana who ruled, at least in the third-grade class where I was held captive. For reasons you will soon understand, my parents had remanded me to the penal institution of St. Brigid's School in Westbury, New York, a cruel and unusual punishment if there ever was one.
Already, I had barely survived my first two years at St. Brigid's because I was, well, a little nitwit. Not satisfied with memorizing the Baltimore Catechism's fine prose, which featured passages like "God made me to show his goodness and to make me happy with him in heaven," I was constantly annoying my classmates and, of course, the no-nonsense Sister Lurana. With sixty overactive students in her class, she was understandably short on patience. For survival, she had also become quick on the draw.
Then it happened. One day I blurted out some dumb remark, and Sister Lurana was on me like a panther. Her black habit blocked out all distractions as she leaned down, looked me in the eye, and uttered words I have never forgotten: "William, you are a bold, fresh piece of humanity."
And she was dead-on. One day in 1957, in the third-grade classroom of St. Brigid's parochial school, an exasperated Sister Mary Lurana bent over a restless young William O'Reilly and said, "William, you are a bold, fresh piece of humanity." Little did she know that she was, early in his career as a troublemaker, defining the essence of Bill O'Reilly and providing him with the title of his brash and entertaining issues-based memoir.
And this time it's personal. In his most intimate book yet, O'Reilly goes back in time to examine the people, places, and experiences that launched him on his journey from working-class kid to immensely influential television personality and bestselling author. Readers will learn how his traditional outlook was formed in the crucible of his family, his neighborhood, his church, and his schools, and how his views on America's proper role in the world emerged from covering four wars on five continents over three-plus decades as a news correspondent. What will delight his numerous fans and surprise many others is the humor and self-deprecation with which he handles one of his core subjects: himself, and just how O'Reilly became O'Reilly.
Customer Reviews:
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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 
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Incredible 
This was a Christmas present for my husband. He absolutely loved it. He loves O'Reilly. I chuckled under my breath as I watched him as he listened to the audio book with headphones on. He was eating it up!!!! One of the best gifts I've ever bought him.
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O'Reilly made me cry -- I was laughing so much!!
My fiance purchased this book at the airport just before we took off for our Thanksgiving vacation to Cancun. He read it first; I read it after we got back. I'm an O'Reilly fan, but I really didn't know what to expect when I picked up this book (except for the few photos and stories that my fiance shared with me while he was reading).
While I enjoyed all of the content, I felt it a bit bothersome that "the bold fresh guy" recounted the facts of his upbringing and early life in a non-linear fashion. I... more info
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Love O'Reilly, but not this book!... 
I watch O'Reilly each night and its an evening ritual that we do enjoy and always look forward to.
BUT....as much as we do love watching his Fox News program, his book is another matter!..
I found his book repetitious, boring and could hardly wait to finish it, if I ever do!..
As a matter of fact, I'm really inclined not to finish reading it and just return this book
Thanks God I didn't buy this book!.. I only borrowed it from my local library.
Look I do love Bill O'Reilly, but... more info
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Find out why Bill O'Reilly is so successful.
Bill's latest book is filled with that age old idea of common sense. I must admit, that until I reached the grand old age of forty-five or so I was a Liberal.Coming from Canada,we we don't haqe political parties named Democrats and Republicans ;ours are called Liberals and Conservatives ,plus a party in Quebec called the Bloc who are Separistics,who are left-wing and the New Democrats,who are a minor party,never greater than 20% and Socialists.But in the end ,in both the US and Canada,the politics are... more info
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