Good Day!: The Paul Harvey Story

by Paul J. Batura

Regnery Publishing, Inc.; ISBN: 1596981016

Hardcover - 291 pages (May 2009)

What Would Paul Harvey Say?

Whenever our country has faced adversity, Americans have turned to an upbeat voice to remind them that the future is not as bad as it seems. For 60 years, that voice of optimism was Paul Harvey's.

In Good Day!: The Paul Harvey Story, author Paul J. Batura follows the remarkable life of one of the founding fathers of the news media. Paul Harvey started his career during the Great Depression and narrated America's story day by day, through wars and peace, the threat of communism and the crumbling of old colonial powers, consumer booms and eventual busts.

Whether he was covering racial tensions, terrorist attacks, or which vitamins to take, Paul Harvey articulated the American experience for average people making their way in a world too large for quick comprehension. Harvey brought them that world "in dime store words," with a deep sense of optimism, faith, and patriotism.

So what would Paul Harvey say today to calm Americans during these tough times?

• In times like these, it's important to remember there have always been times like these.
• The only people who get hurt on a roller coaster are the ones who jump off.
• Like Mark Twain reportedly said about the music of Richard Wagner, "It's not nearly as bad as it sounds."
• Be careful…when a government is mocked by its own citizens, that laughter is often the death rattle with which empires die.
• It's okay to be worried—that means there is still hope! Let's just worry about the right and important things.
• In the history of the world, God often chooses the simple ones to confound the wise.

Featuring a foreword by Mike Huckabee, Good Day! is the only biography of its kind; Good Day! is Harvey's story, the rest of the story, as he would tell it himself.

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