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The Last Newspaperman

Mark Di Ionno

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Description:The Last Newspaperman is a story about tabloid journalism in the 1920s and 30s, and how it created the crime-saturated and celebrity-obsessed media we have today. Author Di Ionno—award-winning columnist for The Star-Ledger, New Jersey’s largest newspaper—will make numerous personal appearances in support of the novel’s national launch this fall.“While much of the action is set in New Jersey in the 1930s, The Last Newspaperman is not strictly a historical novel,” Di Ionno said. “My goal was to connect the past with the contemporary, sensationalist media that dominates the airwaves, newsstands, and internet.”The novel’s fictional protagonist is Frederick Haines, a one-time star tabloid reporter for the New York Daily Mirror now nearing the end of his life. A young reporter on assignment listens with rapt attention as Haines gives him the back stories on the Lindbergh baby kidnapping, the Hindenburg disaster, the deadly Morro Castle cruise ship fire, and the hysteria that followed Orson Welles’s “War of the Worlds” broadcast.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Last Newspaperman. To get started finding The Last Newspaperman, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 219

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Plexus Publishing, Inc.

Release: 2012

ISBN: 093754874X

Description: The Last Newspaperman is a story about tabloid journalism in the 1920s and 30s, and how it created the crime-saturated and celebrity-obsessed media we have today. Author Di Ionno—award-winning columnist for The Star-Ledger, New Jersey’s largest newspaper—will make numerous personal appearances in support of the novel’s national launch this fall.“While much of the action is set in New Jersey in the 1930s, The Last Newspaperman is not strictly a historical novel,” Di Ionno said. “My goal was to connect the past with the contemporary, sensationalist media that dominates the airwaves, newsstands, and internet.”The novel’s fictional protagonist is Frederick Haines, a one-time star tabloid reporter for the New York Daily Mirror now nearing the end of his life. A young reporter on assignment listens with rapt attention as Haines gives him the back stories on the Lindbergh baby kidnapping, the Hindenburg disaster, the deadly Morro Castle cruise ship fire, and the hysteria that followed Orson Welles’s “War of the Worlds” broadcast.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Last Newspaperman. To get started finding The Last Newspaperman, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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