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The World of Mike Royko
University of Wisconsin Press, 1999 Cloth: 978-0-299-16540-6 | eISBN: 978-0-299-16543-7 Library of Congress Classification PN4874.R744M64 1999 Dewey Decimal Classification 070.92
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
ABOUT THIS BOOK
This illustrated biography is the first account of the colorful life of Chicago newspaper columnist Mike Royko, Pulitzer Prize winner, best-selling author, and legendary journalist who personified Chicago in all its rough-edged charm. Drawing on exclusive photos and interviews with Royko’s family and intimates, the book chronicles Royko’s rise from a “flat-above-a-tavern” youth—raised above a bar on Chicago’s Polish northwest side—to one of the best-known names in American journalism. See other books on: 1932-1997 | Chicago (Ill.) | Editors, Journalists, Publishers | Journalists | Royko, Mike See other titles from University of Wisconsin Press |
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The World of Mike Royko
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
University of Wisconsin Press, 1999
Cloth: 978-0-299-16540-6
eISBN: 978-0-299-16543-7
Cloth: 978-0-299-16540-6
eISBN: 978-0-299-16543-7
This illustrated biography is the first account of the colorful life of Chicago newspaper columnist Mike Royko, Pulitzer Prize winner, best-selling author, and legendary journalist who personified Chicago in all its rough-edged charm. Drawing on exclusive photos and interviews with Royko’s family and intimates, the book chronicles Royko’s rise from a “flat-above-a-tavern” youth—raised above a bar on Chicago’s Polish northwest side—to one of the best-known names in American journalism.
Readers will get the inside scoop on Royko’s epic battles with Mayor Richard J. Daley and other politicians and his hilarious columns featuring “Slats Grobnik.” They’ll also meet a softer, largely unknown, side of Royko, through the love letters he sent to his wife-to-be from an Air Force base in Washington State.
More than 100 photos—many never before available to the public—capture the man and his times. Millions of readers—in 800 newspapers around the world—followed Royko’s work and life. In The World of Mike Royko—he lives again.
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