Sauce for the Gander

(price-clipped) [nice tight copy, some very light staining to the top edges of the covers, light discoloration to endpapers, gift inscription (non-authorial) on ffep; jacket shows light wear at the extremities, one tiny closed tear at top of rear panel]. (B&W photographs) "The Amazing Story of a Fabulous Newspaper," that being the legendary New York Evening Graphic, which nurtured (spawned) a whole slew of notable and notorious talents, including Walter Winchell, Jerry Wald, Ed Sullivan, and Samuel Fuller; even director John Huston served a very brief stint as a reporter in the early 1930s. The Graphic, published by Bernarr Macfadden, was the granddaddy of all trashy tabloids, not above stooping to bribery or other unsavory means to get scandalous stories and explicit photos -- and not hestitating to fake the latter if the real thing wasn't good enough. The book "is a sensational biography of an erratic, spectacular and fabulous newspaper. It's also an album of Americana, a revealing, unvarnished chronicle of the golden era of speakeasies, marijuana, hop, flop and slop joints, the flapper, street walkers, jazz and butter and egg men."

Product Info

Publisher: Baldwin Books

Year: (c.1954)

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

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