Road to Air America; Breaking the Right Wing Stranglehold on our Nation's Air Waves

New York, N.Y.: SelectBooks, Inc, 2004. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. 139 pages. Includes Acknowledgments, Introduction, Postscript, appendix A, Appendix B, Appendix C, and Glossary of New Orwellian Terms. Inscribed by the author on the title page. Inscription reads: 11/8/04, Mike, Hope you enjoy. Shelly. Book includes Acknowledgments, Introduction, Postscript, Appendix A, Appendix B; Appendix C, and Glossary of New Orwellian Terms. Topics covered include On the Air; Dreams and Nightmares Come True, Tuned In, Turned Off; Back to Roots, Eisenhower's Warning, The Wake Up Call, Getting Connected, Lost History, In Business, Planning the Road Show, Launch Number One, On Our Way, The Psychology of Money, Meet the Radio Skeptics, Just Say Yes, Air America Takes Off, In the Spotlight, The Mad Dash, First, the Good News, Conference Room Confidential, and Facing the Future. The author was the Founder of Air America Radio. Sheldon Drobny (1945 - January 24, 2020) was an American accountant and investor, best known for forming the company that later became Air America Radio. Drobny began to pursue the start of a liberal radio network sometime in late 2002 or early 2003. He and his wife, Anita, sold the forerunner of Air America Radio to a group headed by Evan Montvel Cohen. Drobny and his wife, Anita, had conceived the idea of starting a progressive talk radio network to compete with conservative talk radio. Drobny credits President Bill Clinton and Vice President Al Gore in helping Air America Radio get started. Drobny claims Gore introduced him to Al Franken, helping AAR secure Franken as talent. This book is an out-spoken look at the conservative-leaning media, and the battles progressives have been waging against the right's radical agenda--an agenda which, as Drobny says, "keeps the public uninformed and poses a danger to American democracy." Road to Air America by Sheldon Drobny, is a candid look behind the scenes of the politics, wealth, and news media that inspired Mr. Drobny's vision and nearly derailed his ability to get America's first all liberal talk-radio network going. From his meetings with President Bill Clinton to his hiring of Al Franken as his marquee on-air talent, Drobny has plenty to say about where our nation's government is heading - and why the news media must stop being a slave to its corporate-owned puppeteers. This book shares numerous anecdotes of what its like to be a player in the Democratic Party, including his meetings with Bill Clinton, Al Gore, Hillary Clinton, and presidential candidates John Kerry, Howard Dean and Dick Gephardt. I'm here to show the nay-sayers are wrong, says Drobny. You can launch a radio network successfully despite the challenges to get funding, despite the right-wing media's slanted coverage and despite getting no cooperation from major distributors or station groups. The liberal voice needs to be heard and here it is.