An edition of Royko (2001)

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An edition of Royko (2001)

Royko

a life in print

1st ed.
  • 4.00 ·
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"When Royko began his career in journalism in the 1950s, newspapers were the sole providers of information, uniquely individual, thriving or failing on their abilities to report faster, write better, and laugh louder than their competitors. Journalism was a tough profession. Police reporters were on the take from mobsters and editors paid more attention to advertisers than to readers. Reporters carried phony police badges and hid pints of bad whiskey in their bottom drawers. They smoked. They drank.

And Royko out-wrote the best of them. He insulted and taunted the most vicious killers in Chicago and the most powerful big city boss of the century. He exposed graft and greed. He damned hypocrisy and he defended the little man.".

"Mike Royko was also haunted by conflict. A difficult man, he would intimidate his assistants every morning and retire to the Billy Goat Tavern every night. He was arrogant and kind. He was incomparably witty and suddenly morose. He was vain and insecure. He played hard and he wrote harder and longer than any other newspaperman.".

"Royko: A Life in Print not only tells the story of one of America's greatest newspapermen, but also explores the dramatic developments in journalism and in American society over the course of the twentieth century."--BOOK JACKET.

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Publisher
Public Affairs
Language
English
Pages
451

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Royko: A Life in Print
2009, PublicAffairs
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January 7, 2003, Public Affairs
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2001, Public Affairs
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New York

Edition Notes

Genre
Biography.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
070.92, B
Library of Congress
PN4874.R744 C53 2001, PN4874.R744C53 2001

The Physical Object

Pagination
xvi, 451 p., [8] p. of plates :
Number of pages
451

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL6791402M
Internet Archive
roykolifeinprint00cicc
ISBN 10
1891620517
LCCN
00054779
OCLC/WorldCat
45634549
Library Thing
389015
Goodreads
901995

First Sentence

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Work Description

Mike Royko pulled no punches. A hardnosed reporter with a keen sense of social justice and a murderous pen, he became, in Jimmy Breslin's words, "the best journalist of his time". Royko was by all accounts a difficult man, who would chew out his assistants every morning and retire to the Billy Goat Tavern every night. But his writing was magic. No one captured Chicago like Mike Royko. No one wrote with his honesty, his toughness, his passion, and his humor.In this, the first comprehensive biography of one of the most important Chicagoans of the century, Dick Ciccone, a long-time colleague and editor of Royko's at the Chicago Tribune, captures Royko at his best and at his worst. We see Royko sweating over columns minutes before deadline. We see him romancing his wife. We see him torturing his legmen. We see him barbequeing ribs and riffing on politicians.

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