No comments about Brilliant Bylines: A Biographical Anthology of Notable Newspaper-Women in American (Gender and Culture).

2 comments about From Winchester to This.

1. if you are a Henry Root fan this is enjoyable but quirky-as you would expect



2. William Donaldson is one of those writers (like say Iain Sinclair or Thomas Merton) who is incapable of writing a bad sentence. And this book is Willie pure - wonderfully funny and tragic at the same time.
   
   However, one warning: he always took pleasure in seeing what he could get away with. If you have already read his other books, this one will probably be quite a disappointment, as most of it appears in one form or another in either his "fiction", his "journalism" or his "comic books" (as always with Willie's work, the categories are loose).
   
   I'd go so far as to say it is almost entirely cut and paste. Amazing, really, that he didn't sue himself for breach of copyright.

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No comments about George Seldes dies at 104, battled U.S. media since '20s.(Obituary): An article from: St. Louis Journalism Review.

1 comments about Huddle: Fathers, Sons and Football.

1. I really loved how the father in this story got behind his son, even when he picked a sport that the dad had little or no understanding of. I got that impression that, to the dad, it was not what sport his son was playing that was important, but instead it was the fact that it was his son playing that mattered.
   
   I am a high school football coach. My son is 6 months old. If he picks (heaven forbid) to not play football, I want to be able to see that the value is in whatever he does and that it should be important to me because it is important to him.
   This is a great book for all fathers to read-- especially if you think your son is going to be the best at (fill-in whatever sport or activity you want) instead of thinking that you are going to let him know that he is the best son you could have ever asked for, no matter what.
   
   This book helps to remind me of my most important job-- to be a supportive father.

1 comments about The Publisher.

1. Frank Brady's The Publisher is the life story of Paul Block who was a newspaper mogul, advertising executive, and political apologist. The core of this comprehensive and meticulous biography is Block's involvement in the history of newspaper publishing and national advertising -- and his influence on the politics of his day which spanned the Gay Nineties, the Jazz age, and the years of the Great Depression. Biographer Frank Brady places Bock within the vivid and dramatic settings of his time as he re-creates the story of Block as a friend, advisor, or opponent of such men as Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Alfred E. Smith, Jimmy Walker, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Here also is the personal side of Paul Block's childhood as the son of an immigrant ragpicker who eventually came to live in an opulent suite at the Waldorf Towers and a mansion in Greenwich, Connecticut. The Publisher is a superbly presented biography of an influential American who lived through "interesting times".

No comments about Paul Bowles by His Friends.

No comments about T.P. O'Connor and the Liverpool Irish (Royal History Society #39).

No comments about Hard to Get: Fast Talk and Rude Questions Along the Interview Trail.

No comments about Rupert Hart-davis: A Brief History With a Checklist of Publications.