The Lost Journalism of Ring Lardner
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The Lost Journalism of Ring Lardner

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The Lost Journalism of Ring Lardner

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Ring Lardner's influence on American letters is arguably greater than that of any other American writer in the early part of the twentieth century. Lauded by critics and the public for his groundbreaking short stories, Lardner was also the country's best-known journalist in the 1920s and early 1930s, when his voicewas all but inescapable in American newspapers and magazines. Lardner's trenchant, observant, sly, and cynical writing style, along with a deep understanding of human foibles, made his articles wonderfully readable and his words resonate to this day. Ron Rapoport has gathered the best of Lardner's journalism from his earliest days at the South Bend Times through his years at the Chicago Tribune and his weekly column for the Bell Syndicate, which appeared in 150 newspapers and reached eight million readers. In these columns Lardner not only covered the great sporting events of the era—from Jack Dempsey's fights to the World Series and even an America's Cup—he also wrote about politics, war, and Prohibition, as well as parodies, poems, and penetrating observations on American life. The Lost Journalism of Ring Lardner reintroduces this journalistic giant and his work and shows Lardner to be the rarest of writers: a spot-on chronicler of his time and place who remains contemporary to subsequent generations.

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Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Year
2017
ISBN
9780803299405
Topic
Languages & Linguistics
Subtopic
Journalism
Index
Languages & Linguistics

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Epigraph
  5. Contents
  6. Foreword
  7. Introduction
  8. A Note to Readers
  9. Ring Lardner Tells His Sad, Sad Story to the World
  10. 1. Getting Started
  11. 2. Baseball
  12. 3. Ring Goes to War
  13. 4. Football
  14. 5. Politics
  15. 6. Boxing
  16. 7. The Noble Experiment
  17. 8. The America’s Cup and Other Sports
  18. 9. Family Life
  19. 10. On Journalism
  20. 11. People, Places, and Pieces of Ring’s Mind
  21. 12. Parodies and Reviews
  22. 13. Buried Treasure and Night Letters
  23. Acknowledgments
  24. Notes
  25. Selected Bibliography
  26. About Ring Lardner
  27. About Ron Rapoport
  28. About James Lardner