Verfasst von:	Breslin, Jimmy [VerfasserIn]
Titel:	Jimmy Breslin
Titelzusatz:	essential writings : Columns and other journalism 1960-2004 ; How the good guys finally won ; The short sweet dream of Eduardo Gutiérrez
Mitwirkende:	Barry, Dan [HerausgeberIn]
Werktitel:	Werke
Verf.angabe:	Dan Barry, editor
Ausgabe:	First edition
Verlagsort:	New York, N.Y
Verlag:	The Library of America
Jahr:	2024
Umfang:	xi, 723 Seiten
Format:	21 cm
Gesamttitel/Reihe:	Library of America ; 377
Fussnoten:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 663-708) and index
Ang. zum Inhalt:	How the good guys finally won : notes from an impeachment summer
	The short sweet dream of Eduardo Gutiérrez
ISBN:	978-1-59853-768-0
Abstract:	The 72 columns selected here by editor Dan Barry, more than half of which have not been reprinted since initial publication, reveal Breslin at his best, addressing stories of national and global importance but more often uncovering tales of ordinary New Yorkers, by turns tragic or absurd but always gripping to read. Gathered here are the highlights of his consummate deadline artistry: his celebrated interview with the man who dug the grave for John F. Kennedy, his coverage of the assassination of Malcolm X, his dispatches from the South at the height of the Civil Rights movement and from Vietnam, accounts of his involvement with the "Son of Sam" case as the serial killer who terrorized New York City in 1977, his story about John Lennon's murder in 1980, his award-winning series about the AIDS crisis in 1986, and his disgusted glimpse of Donald Trump conning the press corps during a book promotion in 1990. These masterful columns are joined by two of Breslin's books: How the Good Guys Finally Won (1976), one of the best accounts of the Watergate scandal, centered on House Majority Leader Tip O'Neill and his allies, whose success in forcing Richard Nixon for office scored an unlikely victory for U.S. democracy; and The Short Sweet Dream of Eduardo Gutiérrez (2002), the story of an immigrant laborer killed at a construction site in Brooklyn and of the malfeasance among developers, city officials, and others that enabled the accident to happen. As quintessentially a New York figure as the memorable urban characters he portrayed, Breslin nonetheless transcended the confines of his local audience and became a national celebrity, writing with a novelist's awareness of the telling detail that reveals the depth of a person's, and a people's, character.--
	"Across a career spanning many decades, from the Kennedy assassination to 9/11, Jimmy Breslin was America's greatest newspaper columnist, a passionate writer driven by outrage at injustice, tough-minded empathy for the vulnerable, and an irrepressible curiosity about people from all walks of life, New York Times journalist Dan Barry has selected the very best of Breslin's columns, more than half reprinted here for the first time. Also included are two classic books: How the Good Guys Finally Won, still one of the most incisive narratives of the Watergate scandal, recounts how House Majority Leader Tip O'Neill and his allies scored an unlikely victory for U.S. democracy; The Short Sweet Dream of Eduardo Gutiérrez, a biography of an undocumented Mexican-born construction worker who meets with senseless tragedy, is an indictment of the system of developers, builders, and government officials that exploits immigrant labor."--Provided by publisher
URL:	Inhaltsverzeichnis: http://www.gbv.de/dms/bowker/toc/9781598537680.pdf
Schlagwörter:	(p)Breslin, Jimmy    / (g)USA    / (s)Presse    / (t)The New York Times    / (z)Geschichte 1960-2004
Sprache:	eng
Sach-SW:	Affaire Watergate, 1972-1974
	Travailleurs étrangers mexicains - New York (État) - New York - Biographies
	Newspapers - Sections, columns, etc
	Creative nonfiction
	Creative nonfiction
	Essais fictionnels
Zeit-SW:	1972-1974
K10plus-PPN:	1885747713
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