A twenty-year veteran of the television industry, BILL O'REILLY has won two Emmy awards for excellence in reporting. He served as national correspondent for ABC News and as anchor of the nationally syndicated Inside Edition. A graduate of Marist College, he holds two master's degrees, one in public administration from Harvard and another in broadcast journalism from Boston University. He lives on Long Island with his wife and their daughter. <br>JAMES ELLROY, who contributes an Afterword to The No Spin Zone, is a famed novelist and journalist who profiled Bill O'Reilly for the magazine GQ.
[O'Reilly] is the Real McCoy. He's the best reporter I've seen in years . . . He is smart, well-read, has good values . . . and he is fearless in picking targets. -Newsday This explosive anchor can be articulate, bombastic, scornful, witty, iconoclastic, passionate, persuasive, and sarcastic -Publishers Weekly [O'Reilly's] brand of hard-nosed, regular-guy TV talk is here to stay. -Newsweek [The No Spin Zone] vibrates with O'Reilly's gruff Irish wit and elbows-on-the-bar social criticism. -Atlanta Journal-Constitution