A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity Audiobook By Bill O'Reilly cover art

A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity

 Preview
Get this deal Try for $0.00
Offer ends December 16, 2025 11:59pm PT.
Prime logo Prime members: New to Audible? Get 2 free audiobooks during trial.
Just $0.99/mo for your first 3 months of Audible Premium Plus.
1 audiobook per month of your choice from our unparalleled catalog.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, podcasts, and Originals.
Auto-renews at $14.95/mo after 3 months. Cancel anytime.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
Premium Plus auto-renews for $14.95/mo after 30 days. Cancel anytime.

A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity

By: Bill O'Reilly
Narrated by: Bill O'Reilly
Get this deal Try for $0.00

$14.95/mo after 3 months. Cancel anytime. Offers ends December 16, 2025 11:59pm PT.

$14.95/month after 30 days. Cancel anytime.

Buy for $15.75

Buy for $15.75

Get 3 months for $0.99 a month
The year was 1957, the month September, and I had just turned eight years old. Dwight Eisenhower was President, but in my life it was the diminutive, intense Sister Mary Lurana who ruled, at least in the third-grade class where I was held captive. For reasons you will soon understand, my parents had remanded me to the penal institution of St. Brigid’s School in Westbury, New York, a cruel and unusual punishment if there ever was one.

Already, I had barely survived my first two years at St. Brigid’s because I was, well, a little nitwit. Not satisfied with memorizing the Baltimore Catechism’s fine prose, which featured passages like “God made me to show his goodness and to make me happy with him in heaven,” I was constantly annoying my classmates and, of course, the no-nonsense Sister Lurana. With sixty overactive students in her class, she was understandably short on patience. For survival, she had also become quick on the draw.

Then it happened. One day I blurted out some dumb remark, and Sister Lurana was on me like a panther. Her black habit blocked out all distractions as she leaned down, looked me in the eye, and uttered words I have never forgotten: “William, you are a bold, fresh piece of humanity.”

And she was dead-on.

One day in 1957, in the third-grade classroom of St. Brigid’s parochial school, an exasperated Sister Mary Lurana bent over a restless young William O’Reilly and said, “William, you are a bold, fresh piece of humanity.” Little did she know that she was, early in his career as a troublemaker, defining the essence of Bill O’Reilly and providing him with the title of his brash and entertaining issues-based memoir.

And this time it’s personal. In his most intimate book yet, O’Reilly goes back in time to examine the people, places, and experiences that launched him on his journey from working-class kid to immensely influential television personality and bestselling author. Readers will learn how his traditional outlook was formed in the crucible of his family, his neighborhood, his church, and his schools, and how his views on America’s proper role in the world emerged from covering four wars on five continents over three-plus decades as a news correspondent. What will delight his numerous fans and surprise many others is the humor and self-deprecation with which he handles one of his core subjects: himself, and just how O’Reilly became O’Reilly.©2008 Bill O'Reilly; (P)2008 Random House Audio Art & Literature Biographies & Memoirs Entertainment & Celebrities Journalists, Editors & Publishers Political Science Politics & Government Witty Funny
Personal Insights • Life Lessons • Engaging Narration • Gifted Storyteller • Humorous Stories • Authentic Experiences

Highly rated for:

All stars
Most relevant
I have a much better understanding of O'Reily now and the decades of his book.

To know him is to like him!

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Bill O'Reilly is what happens when the common man can be articulate. his version of life could have easily been my own.

Slice of Life

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Enjoyed listening to the book, Bill O'Reilly is a interesting and very out spoken man, and this is a insight on what made him, him.

Good Book

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
This great autobiography/political/comedic audiobook draws you in by the great story and voice over by Bill O'Reilly himself and betwixt comedic stories of him and his classmates when he was young and his later rise to fame this is an overall satisfying book that kept me enthralled throughout the entire span of its life.

Very satisfying

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
The sign of a good autobiography is its humility and honesty, and incredibly, A Bold Fresh is both. The experience of listening to this audiobook reminded me of Sidney Poitier's "The Measure of a Man", which was excellent. Why that is the case is obvious to me now. Simply, audio books that are read by their author communicate the authentic story as it went through the authors mind. The emotions and intonations add so much to the experience, communicating much more than words alone.

Authors take note, if you wish to get to iPod and iPhone customers, it helps a great deal to show that it is worth the time out of your life to read your own material.

James V Luisi

Avid Reader Explains Bold Fresh is a must Listen

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
See more reviews