Audiobook (abridged)1 hour
On The Road With Charles Kuralt
Written by Charles Kuralt and Wallace Kuralt
Narrated by Charles Kuralt
Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
4.5/5
()
About this audiobook
Charles Kuralt's classic bestseller is now on audio!
On The Road With Charles Kuralt
Featuring Charles Kuralt with an introduction by Wallace Kuralt
"To read the front pages, you might conclude that Americans are mostly out for themselves...but you can't travel the back roads very long without discovering a multitude of gentle people doing good for others with no expectation of gain or recognition."
In this collection of short audio essays, Charles Kuralt takes us from the countryside to the big cities to introduce us to the fascinating people and places that only he could find. Kuralt captures the humor and compassion of ordinary people leading extraordinary lives.
From the best selling book On The Road With Charles Kuralt, these classic stories represent Kuralt's defining, and perhaps finest, work. Never before released on audio, this collection ensures that his unforgettable voice will be heard by generations to come.
On The Road With Charles Kuralt
Featuring Charles Kuralt with an introduction by Wallace Kuralt
"To read the front pages, you might conclude that Americans are mostly out for themselves...but you can't travel the back roads very long without discovering a multitude of gentle people doing good for others with no expectation of gain or recognition."
In this collection of short audio essays, Charles Kuralt takes us from the countryside to the big cities to introduce us to the fascinating people and places that only he could find. Kuralt captures the humor and compassion of ordinary people leading extraordinary lives.
From the best selling book On The Road With Charles Kuralt, these classic stories represent Kuralt's defining, and perhaps finest, work. Never before released on audio, this collection ensures that his unforgettable voice will be heard by generations to come.
Author
Charles Kuralt
Charles Bishop Kuralt was ajournalist. He is most widely known for his long career with CBS, first for his "On the Road" segments on The CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite, and later as the first anchor of CBS News Sunday Morning, a position he held for fifteen years
More audiobooks from Charles Kuralt
Charles Kuralt's America Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Charles Kuralt's Christmas Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5More Charles Kuralt's American Moments Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Charles Kuralt's Summer Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Charles Kuralt's Spring Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
Related to On The Road With Charles Kuralt
Related audiobooks
Charles Kuralt's American Moments Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Longest Road: Overland in Search of America, from Key West to the Arctic Ocean Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Maine Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSee You on the Radio Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5River Horse: A Voyage Across America Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Hey Ranger!: True Tales of Humor and Misadventure from America's National Parks Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5N B C University Theater: A Farewell To Arms Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Visit to Mark Twain's House Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Lake Wobegon Summer 1956 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Long Time Leaving: Dispatches From Up South Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Northland: A 4,000-Mile Journey Along America's Forgotten Border Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Local Man Moves to the City: Loose Talk from American Radio Company Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Pepsodent Show - Volume 4 - Judy Garland & Betty Grable Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsOur Lady of the Freedoms Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Lassoing the Sun: A Year in America's National Parks Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Life in Comedy: An Evening of Favorites from a Writer's Life Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Garrison Keillor Comedy Gift Pack Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWLT: A Radio Romance Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5News from Lake Wobegon: Summer Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5NPR Road Trips: Family Vacations: Stories that Take You Away Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Papa Hemingway Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Liberty Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5That Time of Year: A Minnesota Life Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Grand Canyon: One Man’s Journey Through Depression Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5A Prairie Home Companion: The Final Performance Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Gospel Birds: And Other Stories of Lake Wobegon Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/550 Great American Places: Essential Historic Sites Across the U.S. Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Sunday Mornings in Plains Collection Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Lake Wobegon U.S.A.: Rhubarb Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
Literary Criticism For You
Don't Panic: Douglas Adams and the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Fahrenheit 451 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Art of Subtext: Beyond Plot Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Thalia Book Club: Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird 50th Anniversary Celebration Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Shakespeare Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/51984 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Summary: Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover: Key Takeaways, Summary & Analysis Included Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Catcher in the Rye Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Reading Life: The Joy of Seeing New Worlds Through Others' Eyes Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The World of Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop: A Memoir, a History Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Meet Me in the Margins Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Bad Feminist: Essays Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Life of One's Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Poetry Unbound: 50 Poems to Open Your World Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Of Mice and Men Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Lord of the Flies Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5To Kill a Mockingbird Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Daniel Kahneman's "Thinking Fast and Slow": A Macat Analysis Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Book Thief Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Thalia Book Club: Neil Gaiman: The Ocean at the End of the Lane Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Conspiracy against the Human Race: A Contrivance of Horror Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Mythologies: The Complete Edition, in a New Translation Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5C. S. Lewis: Encountering God's Truth through Fiction Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
Reviews for On The Road With Charles Kuralt
Rating: 4.466666666666667 out of 5 stars
4.5/5
15 ratings6 reviews
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I recall when Charles Kuralt did his little stories on television, so when I saw this book at a yard sale, I decided to give it a try.It's hard for me to review a book like this: most of the "stories" are only two or three pages long. However, the author packs a lot of story in the brief chapters. Some of the people he met make you go "hmm", others make you smile or chuckle, and more than one brought tears to my eyes.Why would a book full of little stories about ordinary people move me in this manner?I think it's a combination of the truth and Charles Kuralt's literary talent. Whatever it is, it works, and I appreciate it.Saved on my shelves for a future reread!
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I bought this because I had very good memories of Kuralt on cbs Sunday morning. He's dead now.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Decades ago, Charles Kuralt used to do this little human-interest news segment where he'd travel around the United States basically talking to random people he found interesting for one reason or another, or who lived in interesting places or did interesting -- if sometimes only mildly interesting -- things. This is a collection of those segments in text form, with black-and-while pictures. It was published in 1985, although some of these pieces seem to date back at least to the 70s.Each segment is only a few pages long, usually featuring a few words of wisdom from the person in question. Most of them are old people -- now probably all dead, I suppose, which is a slightly odd, slightly sad thing to think about -- and many of them are people who once pursued, or still were pursuing, professions or ways of life that had already effectively disappeared by the 80s. Some of them are just odd characters. And quite a few are people who do nice things for others without reward.All of which sounds very charming, so I feel kind of bad for not liking this more than I did. But the truth is, these profiles are all so short and shallow that there's not a lot to really get into here. Often there doesn't really seem to be a whole lot to be said, and much of the book, to me, reads more or less like: "Look, here's a guy from rural Kentucky who's a croquet champion. Isn't that funny? You expect only rich people to play croquet. And, hey, this old guy makes kites for kids! Isn't that nice? And now, a town with some pretty butterflies!" There's really not a lot there, and when there is, when it's clear there's some really interesting backstory and details it would be cool to hear a lot more about, that's not forthcoming, either. Which is too bad, as I really would have liked to hear more about, say, the high school class who built an airplane in wood shop. I didn't actually understand that story, to be honest -- was that actually a real, functional airplane? -- but I would have liked to.Mostly it's all very sweet, in a folksy sort of way, but, well... I feel like a terrible, irredeemable product of 21st century cynicism saying so, but there's really only one word for the overall feel of the writing and the presentation, and that's... corny. Even by the standards of its time, it's corny.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Fantastic well worth listening to...brought a tear to my eye more than once...
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Disappointed that it is only a few stories from the book and not the whole book. What I did hear was very listenable and interesting.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Wow. This was an awesome book. It's a great look at an America long gone, and a nice change from the gloom and doom and man's inhumanity to man that's usually in the news. The gumball story brought back memories of saving up to buy the one for $3 on the shelves of Woolworth's.What's further amusing is that it was a world long-gone when Kuralt wrote this book in 1985--it's even further from our grasp now.
1 person found this helpful