ALIVE on the Andrea Doria! The Greatest Sea Rescue in History

   
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 International and National Broadcast:


         Joey Reynolds Show Interview Live Radio July 20, 2006 and June 19, 2008
         Bill Thompson, online “Eye on Books”, interview/podcas
         AP
Pod cast Interview/Book Reading (357 Newspapers/Online) July 23, 2006
         CBS News Sunday Morning with Charles Osgood feature segment
        
July 23, 2006
         La Rai  “Speciale TG Uno” of La Rai News TV magazine,
2006, 2007,
         2008

        
(Major Italian “60 Minutes” type program) July 23, 2006 US and Italy
         PBS Special
National Airing “Secrets of the Dead: the Sinking of the 
         "Andrea Doria”, beginning July 26, 2006 8 pm. (Aired May 27, 2006 in Italy)          Windsor Cable, Windsor, Canada 2008
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 Regional Broadcast:

       
  WMUK, Michigan PBS radio station, Interview July 7, 2006
         Fox News Channel 2 feature Detroit July 13, 2006
         “Your Morning”CN8 Comcast  PA/DE/NY/MD/+; 4,300,000 subscribers
         Live Interview July 19, 2006  
         WJR  760 News/Talk Detroit, The Mitch Album show, July 23, 2006
         Brad Davis Program Radio Interview WDRC Hartford July 25, 2006
         (Includes WSNG, WCCO, WMMW)       
         PBS of Michigan, author appearing after PBS national documentary
         “Secrets of the Dead: Andrea Doria” August, 2006
         American OGGI Radio Italian Interview July 24th or 25th, 2006
         WTIC, Hartford, CT, James Di Giuseppi, live interview, July 25, 2006
         WDRC Radio (WSNG, WCCO, WMMW) CT Brad Davis Show July 25, 2006
         WXYZ Channel 7 Detroit July 26, 2006 Segment       
         WTBQ Radio  Frank Truatt Morning Show (NY/NJ) July 26, 2006
         WTBQ Radio (Orange Cty-N.NJ) Frank & Rob Show July 28, 2006
         WJR 760 News/Talk Detroit
, Warren Pierce, July 30, 2006  
         WCAR 1090AM, Catholic Radio, Dino Valle, September 27, 2006
         ABC, Channel 7, Our Italian Story, documentary, December 9, 16, 25, 2006
         KDKA Radio, "CBS News After Midnight" with Gary Dickson, 2007
         WJR radio, Morning Talk Show with Paul W. Smith, 2007
         Clinton Twp. Cable, Financial Matters, Tom Hakim, 2007
         Shelby Twp. Cable, Phil Nye, 2007
         Grosse Pointe Cable, Jeannie Taylor, 2007
         Suburban Lifestyles, Novi and Rochester Hills,  2006 & 2007

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 National Print/Online

       
  Wired.com News Feature July 24, 2006
         MSNBC.com Feature July 24, 2006
         USA Today Feature July 24, 2006
         Yahoo! News July 24, 2006
         AP Feature Story, Richard Pyle (Scores of US newspapers)
         FindLaw.com Legal News Feature July 24, 2006
         Italian Tribune Andrea Doria special issue/interview
         St. Anthony Messenger Press Book Review (circ. 342,000 monthly)
         Italian America Magazine (circ. 180,000) (Order Sons of Italy in America)
         Triangle Magazine (International Classical Music publication)
         “Voyages”, a Titanic international bulletin, July story
         Sea Classics Magazine June book review
         Soundings Magazine June book review
         “Voyages”, Titanic International, book review, fall issue
         “Proceedings and Naval History” magazine, U.S. Naval Institute
         The Steamship Historical Sociaty, magazine book review, September, 2006
         The Order of the Sons of italy, chose book for its book club members and
         for review in their fall newsletter
         St. Anthony's Messenger, book review, fall
         The Catholic Digest, 2006 & 2007
         Writers in the Sky, Yvonne Perry, 2007
         Fascinating Authors, Penny Sansevieri, 2007
         Jay Grayce Show, 2008 
         Lu An Mitchell, Voice of America
, 2008
        
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       REGIONAL Print/Online

     
    Detroit News feature, July 21, 2006
         Philadelphia Inquirer Book Review and feature, July 25, 2006
         Oakland Press (Detroit area) feature July 12, 2006
         Boca Raton News survivor story July 18, 2006
         Newsday (Long Island) feature July 22, 2006; July 24, 2006
         San Antonio Express-News feature July 23, 2006
         Times-Herald feature August, 2006
         Journal News Westchester-Rockland-Putnam NY Feature July 21, 2006
         Staten Island Advance Feature July 22, 2006
         Metro Newspaper NY-Boston-Phil feature July 25, 2006
         Seattle Post-Intelligencer feature July 24, 2006
         Sky Valley Journal  Wyoming Feature July 24, 2006
         San Antonio Express News MySanAntonio.com feature July 22, 2006
         New York Daily News feature July 23, 2006
         Austin American Statesman feature July 24, 2006
         Austin 360.com feature July 24, 2006
         Star Tribune Minn-St. Paul feature 7/25/06
         The Providence Journal feature July 24, 2006
         The Seattle Times feature July 25, 2006
         Daily Herald News Chicago Area feature July 25, 2006
         Auburn Citizen NY feature July 27, 2006
         Dayton Daily News Ohio feature July 24, 2006
         Boston Globe feature, July 12 and July 24, 2006
         America Oggi, Oggi 7 Sunday insert feature July 16, 2006
         New York Daily News feature July, 2006
         “The Inside Scoop” Detroit Country Day School’s newsletter, feature
         “Novi News” web story and print newspaper feature July, 2006
         “Suburban Lifestyles” of Novi feature July 11, 2006
         Rochester feature July 18, 2006
          “Smart Women’s Coaching”,
 e-newsletter, feature June, 2006 issue
          Lancaster Sunday News, Lancaster, PA feature July 24, 2006
          Daily Record, New Jersey markets, feature July 26, 2006
          Downriver News-Herald, (S.E. Michigan) feature, August, 2006
          Italian Tribune of the Detroit Metro Area, feature, August 10, 2006
          The Windsor Star (Canada), feature, July 31, 2006
          Wichita Eagle, feature, July 25, 2006
          Sun-Sentinal, Boca Raton, survivor interview, August 18, 2006
          The Observer-Eccentric papers, feature, August 24, 2006
          Il Giornale Italiano, November, 2006
          Suburban Lifestyles, December, 2006
          Italian Tribune, December, 2006  
          (Oakland & Wayne counties)
          “Shipwrecks! The Great Lakes and Beyond”, book review, fall issue 
          Illinois Library Association, Chicago, presentation: Sally Walker, reviewer
          Detroit Country Day School "Beehive" publication, feature, 2007 and
          2008
          Italian Tribune, MI, 2006 & 2007
          Il Giornale Italiano, MI, 2006 & 2007
          Il Giornale Italiano-Americano, NYC, 2008
          Strut, women’s magazine of S.E. Michigan, 2008

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  International

        
International Herald Tribune France  Feature July 24, 2006
         Monsters & Critics.com UK, Feature July 22, 2006
         The London Times Feature July 26, 2006
         Canoe Quebecor Media Online feature July 25, 2006
         Toronto-Star feature July 26, 2006
         Yacht Capital  “The Sea Has Not Claimed Me” article
         June, 2006 interview in “Pagine del Piemonte” (Italian international
         journal)           
        
Published in Titanic Diaries, a book by Anthony Cunningham
         Sardinia News, feature, August 15, 2006
         The Steamship Society, book review in magazine, September, 2006
         Oggi magazine feature and review (Italy’s largest/oldest magazine).
         Crew of the Andrea Doria Survivor’s Ceremony event in Genova, Italy
         Italy Book Promotion Tour: Sperling & Kupfer,October,Milan, Genova,
         Rome, Naples, November, 2006.
         Ships Monthly, Britain, fall, 2006 review
         Titanic International of Germany, Germany 2007

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  In Italy

  A renowned film/TV producer has secured rights to use L’ULTIMA NOTTE
  DELL’ANDREA DORIA
(the Italian translation of ALIVE ON THE ANDREA
  DORIA!
) for a movie.

  Author was invited to Genova’s Museo del Mare.The sculpture she commissioned,
  with Jerome Reinert and Angela Addario, was recognized with book Alive on the
  Andrea Doria! Both items are now part of the museum's permanent collection.

  Book tour of Italy: Milano,Torino, Genova

  Also, a large Italian distributor of books to commercial enterprises: airports,
  shopping centers, kiosques, etc., has chosen L’ULTIMA NOTTE DELL’ANDREA
  DORIA
 for nation-wide distribution.

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 Related items of interest

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The Commemorative Bronze medallions unveiled at the Survivor’s Reunion on July 23, are permanently exhibited in New York's South Street Seaport Museum and in Genova's Museo del Mare. These were commissioned by the author, fellow survivor Jerome Reinert and Angela Addario, and executed by northern California sculptor, Daniel Oberti.

Survivor Julianne McLean’s daughter,Angela Addario, composed a classical work,
"A Voyage of Memories" or “Il Viaggio della Memoria”. It features the Alive on the Andrea Doria! book cover on the CD jacket.

To order a CD, contact the composer at PeakPerformanz@yahoo.com.


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