| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
431 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Part 1 War: -- Like a river of steel it flowed, gray and ghostlike / Richard Harding Davis -- Chauffeurs of Madrid / Ernest Hemingway -- Peace-and the crisis begins / Dorothy Thompson -- Jock Evans was on duty that night / Robert J Casey -- Pearl Harbor / Eleanor Roosevelt -- God-damned infantry -- Death of Captain Waskow -- D-day: a pure miracle / Ernie Pyle -- Dispatches from the end of the war / Orson Welles -- There are no young guys here / Pete Hamill -- To root against your country / Art Hoppe -- Obituary for South Vietnam / Peter R Kann -- Hallelujah / William F Buckley Jr -- Word of the year: freedom / William Safire -- Death takes hold among the living / Pete Hamill -- We'll go forward from this moment / Leonard Pitts Jr -- Boots on the ground, hearts on their sleeves / David Brooks -- Village waiting for rape and murder / Nicholas D Kristof -- Farewell to Geronimo / Thomas L Friedman -- Part 2: Politics: -- What's the matter with Kansas? / William Allen White -- Good luck to the anti-Bolshevists / Theodore Roosevelt -- Gamalielese -- Scopes monkey trail / H L Mencken -- There is a ship / Heywood Broun -- Mad-hatter loyalty purge / Joseph and Stewart Alsop -- Welch defends one friend and finds he's made many / Mary McGrory -- Ninth life / Murray Kempton -- Day of endless fitness / Mary McGrory -- Touring Dixie with LBJ / James Reston -- Decisive political center / James Reston -- Are you against the handicapped? / William F Buckley Jr -- Nixon's resignation / Charles McDowell -- Being spied on had benefits of sorts / Jack Anderson -- Reagan shot: end of an era? / David S Broder -- Slats mistakes GOP for GOD / Mike Royko -- Sound of a lapdog / George F Will -- Supreme Court buzzword guide / Michael Kinsley -- When Clinton talks, people listen-and vice versa / Molly Ivins -- No guardrails / Daniel Henninger -- Pulp nonfiction / Maureen Dowd -- Eastern middle school / Thomas L Friedman -- In defense of the F-word / Charles Krauthammer -- Palin problem / Kathleen Parker -- Morning in America / Eugene Robinson -- National greatness agenda / David Brooks -- Part 3: Sports: -- Casey at the bat / Ernest Lawrence Thayer -- Four horsemen / Grantland Rice -- Louis knocks out Schmeling / Bob Considine -- Seabiscuit: the gamest thoroughbred / Grantland Rice -- Iron horse breaks / Shirley Povich -- Graziano-Zale fight / Jimmy Cannon -- Death of a racehorse / W C Heinz -- Miracle of Coogan's Bluff / Red Smith -- Fisk's home run in 12th beats Reds / Peter Gammons -- Reggie Jackson's three homers / Red Smith -- Muhammad Ali / Jack Newfield -- Slugger, right from the first tee / Jim Murray -- Webber College: best team you never saw / Mitch Albom -- Why is baseball so much better than football? / Thomas Boswell -- Who has won and who has lost? / Bob Greene -- For timeless player, it was time / Thomas Boswell -- Her blue heaven / Bill Plaschke -- |
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Part 4: Humor: -- Danger of lying in bed / Mark Twain -- First entries in the Devil's Dictionary / Ambrose Bierce -- Reform administration / Finley Peter Dunne -- Congress is funniest when it's serious / Will Rogers -- Tips on horses / Ring Lardner -- Apology / Westbrook Pegler -- Death pays a social call / Damon Runyon -- Vertical Negro plan / Harry Golden -- Political poll in 1776 / Art Buchwald -- Nixon goes to the mountain / Art Buchwald -- How to cure a hangover / Mike Royko -- Francs and beans / Russell Baker -- How to argue effectively / Dave Barry -- Spring before swine / Russell Baker -- How to keep the IRS from finding out you're lying / Dave Barry -- Pithy into the wind / Dave Barry -- Hellfire club / Hunter S Thompson -- You're never too young to aim high / Carl Hiaasen -- I ate breakfast and lived / Lewis Grizzard -- Pardon my French / Tony Kornheiser -- Why not the worst? / Gene Weingarten -- Part 5: Crime: -- Chicago gang war / Ernest Hemingway -- Murder in the worst degree / Damon Runyon -- Waiting for Lepke / Walter Winchell -- Marvin the torch / Jimmy Breslin -- Breslin to point 44 killer: give up now! / Jimmy Breslin -- Head in a box / Pete Dexter -- Woman burned while police had their Danish / Murray Kempton -- Etiquette at a crime scene / Carl Hiaasen -- Lucy's blue light / Steve Lopez -- Steak tips to die for -- New land, sad story / Mike Barnicle -- Bullet's impact / Mitch Albom -- Part 6: Civil Rights & Civil Liberties: -- Destiny of colored Americans / Fredrick Douglass -- To an anxious friend / William Allen White -- Fine lesson for the whole nation / Heywood Broun -- Rebellion in Connecticut / Dorothy Thompson -- There ought to be a law / Langston Hughes -- Free speech is worth the risk / I F Stone -- Wrong man / Murray Kempton -- Faubus and Little Rock: scars are for the young / Max Lerner -- He went all the way / Murray Kempton -- Flower for the graves / Eugene Patterson -- Marching to Montgomery / Jack Newfield -- Are the rioters racists? / William F Buckley Jr -- Power of one / Anna Quindlen -- Out of the closet and open to legal attack / Pete Dexter -- Strangling the NAACP / Carl T Rowan -- Coming out against cultural pollution / Stanley Crouch -- Living proof of immigration's marvelousness / Cynthia Tucker -- Path beyond grievance / William Raspberry -- Part 7: Local Voices: -- She bids farewell to New York / Margaret Fuller -- History of our late war / Fanny Fern -- Postscripts / O Henry -- Don Quixote and his last windmill / Ben Hecht -- About New York / Meyer Berger -- Ah, San Francisco / Herb Caen -- Picasso and the cultural rebirth of Chicago / Mike Royko -- Not-so-classic Christmas story about a not-so-silent day in Pershing Square / Jack Smith -- Lubbock: her teeth are stained, but her heart is pure / Molly Ivins -- True confessions / Steve Lopez -- Moneylender Jasper Speciale last of a different breed / John L Smith -- Sprig of verbena and the gifts of a great teacher / Kathleen Parker -- Part 8: Hard Times: -- Death of Frankie Jerome / Westbrook Pegler -- Migration workers take lots of abuse / Woody Guthrie -- To first and last things / Walter Lippmann -- Death in emergency room one -- It's an honor / Jimmy Breslin -- Two minutes to midnight: the very last hurrah / Pete Hamill -- On losing a friend / John Leonard -- If you're expecting one-liners / Jim Murray -- Are you John Lennon? / Jimmy Breslin -- Short story about the Vietnam War Memorial / Molly Ivins -- Fool's errand / Bob Herbert -- His delicious, mansard-roofed world / Peggy Noonan -- Open letter to America / Chris Rose -- |
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Part 9: Farewells: -- Mary White / William Allen White -- American Mussolini / Westbrook Pegler -- Amelia Earhart / Walter Lippmann -- FDR: a great man passes by / Damon Runyon -- Babe Ruth: game called / Grantland Rice -- Ernest Hemingway I knew / Jimmy Cannon -- There was only one Casey / Wells Twombly -- Daley embodied Chicago / Mike Royko -- John Wayne's True Grit / Mike Royko -- She said goodby with charm / Jimmy Breslin -- King of cool / Michael Kelly -- Reagan: an optimist's legacy / George F Will -- Mother's love, clarified / George F Will -- Part 10: Pursuit Of Happiness: -- Advice from Poor Richard's Almanack / Benjamin Franklin -- Yes, Virginia-there is a Santa Claus / Francis Pharcellus Church -- It's what the home folks think of you that really counts / Will Rogers -- Magnificent mammon / Damon Runyon -- Myriad-minded us / Westbrook Pegler -- Even to Judas / Heywood Broun -- Kicks / Murray Kempton -- When God created fathers -- When God created mothers / Erma Bombeck -- Memories of leaner times fed by image of hungry bum / Pete Dexter -- Days of gilded rigatoni / Anna Quindlen -- Jon Will's aptitudes / George F Will -- Advice, like youth, probably wasted on the young / Mary Schmich -- Halloween of my dreams / Marjorie Williams -- Man of the streets, in three suites / Steve Lopez -- 45 life lessons-and five to grow on / Regina Brett -- To old times / Peggy Noonan -- About the columnists -- Acknowledgments -- Permissions -- About the editors. |
| Summary |
Overview: America's story has always been best told in its newspapers. From the local and mundane-crime blotters, crop prices, and Sunday sermons-to the Federalist Papers and Watergate, the press has played an outsized role in our nation's culture and history. Newspapers in America have always been the crucible where our passions and debates are tried by the only judge this nation respects: public opinion. At a time of great transition in the news media, Deadline Artists celebrates the relevance of the newspaper column through the simple power of excellent writing. It is an inspiration for a new generation of writers-whether their medium is print or digital-looking to learn from the best of their predecessors. Contributors include: Jimmy Breslin, Mike Royko, Murray Kempton, Ernie Pyle, Peggy Noonan, Thomas L. Friedman, David Brooks, Mitch Albom, Dorothy Thompson, Ernest Hemingway, Benjamin Franklin, Fanny Fern, Richard Harding Davis, Grantland Rice, Will Rogers, Orson Welles, Langston Hughes, Woody Guthrie, Ambrose Bierce, Mark Twain, Theodore Roosevelt, H.L. Mencken, Ben Hecht, Westbrook Pegler, Heywood Broun, Damon Runyon, W. C. Heinz, Jimmy Cannon, Red Smith, Russell Baker, Art Buchwald, William F. Buckley, Hunter S. Thompson, Pete Dexter, Carl Hiaasen, Dave Barry, Leonard Pitts, Anna Quindlen, Thomas Boswell, Tony Kornheiser, Kathleen Parker, Maureen Dowd, Bob Herbert, Michael Kinsley, Cynthia Tucker, George Will, Jack Newfield, Mike Barnicle, Pete Hamill and Steve Lopez. |
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Newspapers -- Sections, columns, etc.
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Avlon, John P.
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Angelo, Jesse.
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Louis, Errol, 1962-
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| ISBN |
9781590204290 hardcover |
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1590204298 hardcover |
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9781468300543 paperback $17.95 |
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1468300547 paperback $17.95 |
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