Deadline Artists—Scandals, Tragedies & Triumphs: More of America's Greatest Newspaper Columns

Well, of course the book treats various themes. It depends on one's own preferences which one finds best. A good companion volume to the first book along the same lines.

This book is the sequel to the much admired  Deadline Artists: America's Greatest Newspaper Columnists  published in 2011. The subject matter ranges from a night in 1923, when every one of the 76 inhabitants of a small Iowa village stayed up all through the night to stand at attention by the railroad tracks to watch President Harding's funeral train whiz by, to the morning 78 years later when all of America stopped in its tracks and witnessed the terrorism tragedy of 9/11.From World War II comes Marguerite Higgins's eyewitness account of the liberation of Dachau...Ernie Pyle on "Liberating the City of Light" and William Laurence on the atomic bombing of Nagasake. Also in the mix: Lindbergh's landing in Paris...a night at a Klan "Klavern"...the Attica Prison riot...former White House intern Norah Ephron on "All the President's Girls"...Art Buchwald on "The Alabama Literacy Test"... Jack London on the San Francisco Earthquake...Harry Golden on the day Senator McCarthy overplayed his hand...the only contemporary newspaper account of the Wright Brothers' first flight at Kitty Hawk...Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream"...the Cape Kennedy Moon Launch...Watergate...and from Dallas on November 23, 1963, Merriman Smith of UPI learns that sometimes there can be a limit to what even the most trained observer can comprehend.Among sports stories, you'll find Shirley Povich on Don Larson's 1956 no-hit, no-run, no-man-reach-first game in a World Series. And Dick Young's obit for the Brooklyn Dodgers. And Michael Jordan telling Bob Greene of the Chicago Tribune about getting cut from his high school basketball team for not being good enough and why he now thinks "It's probably good that it happened." And much much more. Deadline Artists: America's Greatest Newspaper Columnists

A fascinating verbal panorama of American history as told by someof our country's most famous writers. From the events covering politicalissues, disasters, America's wars, legal cases, sports(even theBrooklyn Dodgers goodbye to Brooklyn, this book presents newspaper editorials andarticles from Lincoln's assassination to today's headlines. A truly "can't putdown" reading that attests to the skills of some of the most famous writers.

Both books in this series provide a glimpse into our nation's history from a very intimate perspective - writers who were living at the time. They are an easy read that can be picked up anytime but hard to put down. I donated mine to the public library because they are too precious and important not to be in constant circulation.

This offers a great history as told through the time it happened. The highly opinionated rough draft of history, which makes it all the more interesting.. The scandals section was definitely the best.