The World According to Breslin

Jimmy Breslin

• Publisher: Open Road Media
• Year: 2012
• ISBN:
  9781453245385
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Journalist Biographies

Classic columns from the legendary New York journalist—"a master of the tough-talking, thoroughly researched, contentious, street-wise vignette" ( San Francisco Chronicle ).
Although his career spans decades, the seven years that Jimmy Breslin spent at the New York Daily News sparked some of his finest work. When New York City tumbled into economic and social chaos at the end of the 1970s, Breslin was there. In his brief, insightful columns, he looked at the city not from the top down but from the bottom up. Eschewing the view of politicians, socialites, and captains of industry, Breslin's heroes are men like Jim Moran, the cop who drove John Lennon to the emergency room after he was shot, or Barney Baker, an ex-boxer who served as bodyguard to mobster Meyer Lansky. These are average people who see big things, and Breslin is their herald. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Jimmy Breslin including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author's personal collection.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Foreword by Michael J. O'Neill
• 1 "Dies the Victim, Dies the City"
• 2 "Not a Social Viewpoint, Merely Addition"
• 3 "A Dream Character in Dancing Pumps"
• 4 "You Give Them Food and They Die"
• 5 "Only Shopping Center Faces"
• 6 "The Steam Was Evil"
• 7 "The Smallest Slight Can Make a Feud"
• 8 "You're Cheaper Off"
• A Biography of Jimmy Breslin
• Copyright