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03890aam a2200481 i 4500 001 19CD772E078011EFB67CD9492AECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240501010023 008 230603t20242024nyu b 001 0 eng d 010 $a 2023938937 020 $a 9781598537680 020 $a 1598537687 035 $a (OCoLC)1380994367 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d OCLCO $d GK8 $d OCO $d OCLCO $d EIK $d OQX $d OCLCO $d ICV $d CLE $d XII $d AUM $d EAU $d IBI $d SILO 050 4 $a PS3552.R39 $b A6 2024 050 04 $a PN4874.B667 $b A3 2024 082 04 $a 818/.54 $2 23 100 1 $a Breslin, Jimmy, $e author. 245 10 $a Jimmy Breslin : $b essential writings : Columns and other journalism 1960-2004 ; How the good guys finally won ; The short sweet dream of Eduardo GutieÌrrez / $c Dan Barry, editor. 246 30 $a Essential writings : Columns and other journalism 1960-2004 246 30 $a Columns and other journalism 1960-2004 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a New York, N.Y, : $b Library of America, $c 2024 300 $a xi, 723 pages ; $c 21 cm 490 1 $a Library of America ; $v 377 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 663-708) and index. 505 00 $g Note on the texts. $t The short sweet dream of Eduardo GutieÌrrez -- $g Columns 1976-2004 -- $t The short sweet dream of Eduardo GutieÌrrez -- $g Chronology -- $g Note on the texts. 520 $a 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.-- $c From Amazon.com 600 10 $a Breslin, Jimmy. 600 10 $a GutieÌrrez, Eduardo, $d 1978-1999. 650 0 $a Watergate Affair, 1972-1974. 650 0 $a Newspapers $x Sections, columns, etc. 650 6 $a Affaire Watergate, 1972-1974. 655 7 $a Creative nonfiction. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Essais fictionnels. $2 rvmgf 700 1 $a Barry, Dan, $d 1958- $e editor. 700 1 $i Container of (work): $a Breslin, Jimmy. $t How the good guys finally won. 700 1 $i Container of (work): $a Breslin, Jimmy. $t Short sweet dream of Eduardo GutieÌrrez. 830 0 $a Library of America ; $v 377. 941 $a 1 952 $l UNUX074 $d 20240501010102.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=19CD772E078011EFB67CD9492AECA4DB 994 $a Z0 $b NIUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search