Mo Rocca Book Quotations

Digital television, satellite radio, videogames, iPods - so much media. Do books even matter anymore?

As the great philosopher George Santayana would have said, 'those who cannot remember the past . . . should simply read Jan Van Meter's Tippecanoe and Tyler Too.' Van Meter's greatest hits collection of slogans is the catchiest ever retelling of American history. It's like the greatest minds of Madison Avenue sat down to write a history book. They don't make sound bites like they used to!

I'm always working on a few different stories at once, so there's always some really big coffee table book I'm carrying around.