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- Publisher: St. Martin's Press
- Number of Pages: 288
- ISBN: 0312375301
- WAPI (Tower ID): 113159659
- Release Date: July 7, 2009
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- Tower.com Sales Rank: #100956 in Books (See Top 100 Books Bestsellers)
- #2860 in Biography & Autobiography (See Top 100 Biography & Autobiography Bestsellers)
- #355 in Presidents & Heads of State (See Top 100 Presidents & Heads of State Bestsellers)
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Product DescriptionMore Books by Bob Greene (Author)Run a Quick Search on "Late Edition: A Love Story" by Bob Greene to Browse Related Products:Browse more products related to "Late Edition: A Love Story"Browse more products related to "Bob Greene"Publisher's noteIn a warm, affectionate true-life tale, "New York Times "bestselling author and CNN contributor Bob Greene travels back to a place where--when little more than a boy--he had the grand good luck to find himself surrounded by a brotherhood and sisterhood of wayward misfits who, on the mezzanine of a Midwestern building, put out a daily newspaper that didn't even know it had already started to die. "In some American cities," Greene writes, "famous journalists at mighty and world-renowned papers changed the course of history with their reporting." But at the "Columbus Citizen-Journal," there was a willful rejection of grandeur: these were overworked reporters and snazzy sportswriters, nerve-frazzled editors and insult-spewing photographers, who found pure joy in the fact that, each morning, they awakened to realize, "I get to go down to the paper again." At least that is how it seemed in the eyes of the novice copyboy who saw romance in every grungy pastepot, a symphony in the song of every creaking typewriter. With current-day developments in the American newspaper industry so grim and dreary, "Late Edition "is a Valentine to an era that was gleefully cocky and seemingly free from care, a wonderful story as bracing and welcoming as the sound of a rolled-up paper thumping onto the front stoop just after dawn. A personal account by a CNN contributor and best-selling author of When We Get to Surf City describes a circle of misfit companions with whom the author created a floundering daily newspaper that reflected period midwestern life and nostalgic journalism practices. 60,000 first printing. AnnotationBestseller Bob Greene pays a heartfelt tribute to the glory days of the newspaper industry, a world filled with tough-talking mile-a-minute writers, reporters, and editors that Greene joyfully experienced as boy while working at the Columbus Dispatch and the Columbus Citizen-Journal. LATE EDITION combines memoir-style anecdotes with cultural commentary on the sad decline of the once-proud daily newspaper, and vivid depictions of the slangy and iconoclastic community it fostered. If You Enjoy "Late Edition: A Love Story (Hardcover)", May We Also Recommend:
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