Memoirs of a New York City Guy

A personal, uplifting, humorous story for NYC lovers, media execs, survivors, and nostalgia buffs. Anthony Motta retired as a senior vice president of Mendelsohn Media Research in 2004. This is a native New Yorker's hilarious account of his up & down life and his checkered career at People magazine, The New York Times and MMR, Inc. The autobiography paints some very funny scenes of family life and growing up in a neighborhood he calls "The nickname capital of the world." He also relates his antics in school, his days as a Brooklyn Dodgers fan, Army life, his crazy-ass friends, surviving cancer, dealing with retirement and luncheons with many famous media darlings of publishing and television. Click on "preview" to learn more.

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Publication Date: Sep 29, 2011
Language: English
Category: Humor
Copyright: All Rights Reserved - Standard Copyright License
Contributors: By (author): Anthony Motta

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Format: PDF

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Mendelsohn Research baseball magazines retirement Army Medical Corps People magazine new york city P.S.4 Long Island City Brooklyn Dodgers Ft. Dix Ft. Sam Houston NYU Baruch College cancer Time Inc New York Times LIC High School

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About Anthony Motta

Mr. Motta majored in psychology and minored in English literature at New York University. He also holds a master’s degree from Bernard Baruch College. He spent the last twelve years of his career as a Senior VP of Mendelsohn Media Research. Motta’s fourth and most current book, New York Survivor is an extension of his first, Memoirs of a New York City Guy, which was published in 2007. It is an updated version of the native New Yorker's hilarious account of his life and career at Time Inc., The New York Times and MMR, Inc. In 2008 he published a humorous novel woven into a timely chronicle of the presidential race of 2008. Love, Sex & Politics is a love story of two Americans renewing ties while competing with each other during the fascinating Democratic Party Primary. One year later he published an amusing, light-hearted mystery novel, Life & Death on the Queen Mary 2, which has been selling as an e-book in the U.S. and the UK.

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