Works by
Donald Imus
(aka Don Imus)
(Writer)

• God's Other Son (1994)
  Imus is back -- by popular demand -- with the Second Greatest Story Ever Told, the hilarious novel about the most outrageous TV evangelist of them all -- Billy Sol Hargus. "God had two sons. Jesus was His first, and I, Billy Sol Hargus, am His second." Thus begins Don Imus's riotously funny story about the life and times of the lecherous, corrupt, hustling, huckstering television evangelist who claims to have a 2,000 year old brother named Jesus. From his backwoods Texas country-preacher roots, Billy Sol rose to dazzle the nation as a Superstar Minister -- preaching at sold-out stadiums and traveling across the country.
  
  Reverend Billy raked in the dough, the fame, and the women. And then it happened -- just like Amelia Earhart and Jimmy Hoffa, Billy Sol vanished one day into legend, disappearing from the face of the earth. But unlike anyone else in the Family, Billy kept a diary -- and now his tapes, believed lost, can finally be heard. Praise the Lord!

• Two Guys Four Corners: Great Photographs, Great Times, and a Million Laughs (1997) with Fred Imus
  A gorgeous and surprising Father's Day gift book, this collection of photos and sassy commentary by radio star Don Imus and his brother, entrepreneur Fred Imus, offers a powerful and memorable work for lovers of the American West and for fans of Don's broadcasts. 70 photos, many in color.

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• The Fred Book (1998) with Mike Lupica
  Collected here for all the ages is the wit and wisdom of Fred Imus, brother of Don, king of Frontier Salsa and 1957 Chevys, who is never shy with his outrageous opinions on his brother's wildly popular Imus in the Morning radio program, where he regularly appears. Whether waxing nostalgic about country music, ranting about American politics, hedging his Monday night football bets, needling Don or hawking his Western goods sold though his million dollar catalogue company (which started as a lark selling a few t-shirts--made in the good old USA, of course), Fred is always outrageous, often outlandish, perverse, and an hilarious alter ego to his big brother Don, the I-Man.
  
  Written with Mike Lupica, this is sure to be a gut-splitting look at the West, Bubba Clinton, every known ethnic group in America, manhood in the nineties, how to sell salsa to yuppies and big-breasted women. Think: Garrison Keillor from Hell. Think: Lewis Grizzard with a wild hair. Think: Rush Limbaugh with grizzle and guts. For the politically incorrect and all their friends, a stocking stuffer for the legions of loyal Imus fans everywhere.

• Everything Imus: All You Ever Wanted to Know About Don Imus (1999) by Jim Reed
  Shock jock. Curmudgeon. New York's Dirty Little Secret. Morning Mouth. Radio's first bad boy. All of these have been used to describe John Donald Imus Jr.--and all of them are squarely on target. For over twenty-five years, Don Imus has been spewing his own antic brand of venom over the nation's airwaves, at times entertaining nearly fifteen million listeners a week. Imus's rocky road to glory is recounted for the first time in Everything Imus. Author Jim Reed, who hosts one of the most successful Imus Web sites on the Internet, has crafted a lighthearted but in-depth profile of one of radio's most controversial personalities. Named one of Time magazine's 25 Most Influential People of l997, Imus has had more than his share of career ups and downs. From U.S. Marine to starving musician, Imus made it to the top of the broadcast heap in just four years. Along the way, he battled serious drug and alcohol abuse before becoming America's favorite acid-tongued shock jock.
  
  Everything Imus chronicles Imus's public battles with politicians from both parties, including his skewering of President Clinton at the Washington Radio and Television Correspondent's Dinner in l996--which propelled the Imus show to "must-hear" status.
  
  Everything Imus is certain to attract attention from the I-Man himself in view of his recent formation of a book club similar to Oprah Winfrey's. Unauthorized, hugely entertaining, and often laugh-out-loud funny, Everything Imus is sure to become a hit.

• Imus: America's Cowboy (1999) by Kathleen Tracy
  You either hate him or love him: Don Imus, with his equal-opportunity-insult style. Either way, you'll find this definitive, in-depth account of the ex-Marine and rhythm-and-blues singer who now rivals Rush Limbaugh and Howard Stern as king of the air waves a revelation. You'll follow the quick rise of Imus from small-time stations in California to his first triumphs in New York as the morning host on WNBC. In a year, drugs, alcohol, and ego ended the glory, and, for the next eight, Imus battled the demons that had nearly cost him all hopes of a career. But in 1979, he was back at WNBC, introducing his Right Reverend Dr. Billy Sol Hargus to New York. With a battery of exclusive personal interviews with Imus's friends and associates as well as with classic selections from the Imus radio archives, this biography offers a detailed, balanced portrait of a public personality and a private man: The one, the only, the disputatious and inimitable Don Imus.

• The Imus Ranch: Cooking for Kids and Cowboys (2004) by Deirdre. T. Imus
  The Imus Ranch transports the reader to a unique place that the author and her husband, talk-show host Don Imus, created: a 4,000-acre working cattle ranch set in rolling hills and mesa country 50 miles east of Santa Fe. The children--who have cancer--visit the Imus Ranch and work alongside authentic western ranch hands, learning to ride horses and rope calves. The experience refuels their bodies and their spirits, and they leave stronger than when they came. As Deirdre Imus explains: 'We welcome kids who have known too much sickness and too much death, and we give them something they urgently need: a sense of in-de-pen-dence and purpose through healthy, vigorous living.'