Minstrel : my adventure in newspapering /
The inside scoop on a life in journalism by a beloved columnist. When he was the first journalist in the country to call the 1960 presidential race in favor of John F. Kennedy, Jim Klobuchar was a scrappy kid from Minnesota's Iron Range. Minstrel is his memoir, the stunning story of politics, s...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
©1997.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | The inside scoop on a life in journalism by a beloved columnist. When he was the first journalist in the country to call the 1960 presidential race in favor of John F. Kennedy, Jim Klobuchar was a scrappy kid from Minnesota's Iron Range. Minstrel is his memoir, the stunning story of politics, sports, the newsroom, and ordinary people he calls "heroes." Klobuchar sees himself as a minstrel, a journalist-adventurer and teller of stories, a witness to his world. The main requirement in that role, he says, is "good peripheral vision and skill at escape."Minstrel describes Klobuchar's upbringing in |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xv, 239 pages) |
ISBN: | 9780816688326 081668832X |