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A loving and laughter-filled trip back to a lost American time when the newspaper business was the happiest game in town.

In a warm, affectionate true-life tale, New York Times bestselling author Bob Greene (When We Get to Surf City, Duty, Once Upon a Town) travels back to a place where--when little more than a boy--he had the grand good luck to find himself surrounded by a brotherhood and sisterhood of wayward misfits who, on the mezzanine of a Midwestern building, put out a daily newspaper that didn't even know it had already started to die.

In some American cities, Greene writes, famous journalists at mighty and world-renowned papers changed the course of history with their reporting. But at the Columbus Citizen-Journal, there was a willful rejection of grandeur--these were overworked reporters and snazzy sportswriters, nerve-frazzled editors and insult-spewing photographers, who found pure joy in the fact that, each morning, they awakened to realize: I get to go down to the paper again.

At least that is how it seemed in the eyes of the novice copyboy who saw romance in every grungy pastepot, a symphony in the song of every creaking typewriter. With current-day developments in the American newspaper industry so grim and dreary, Late Edition is a Valentine to an era that was gleefully cocky and seemingly free from care, a wonderful story as bracing and welcome as the sound of a rolled-up paper thumping onto the front stoop just after dawn.

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Insatiable joy -- The Wall Street Journal &#160; Wonderful. . .an incredibly good read -- Louisville Courier-Journal&#160; <p> Once you start Late Edition , you won't be able to put it down, even if it means staying up all night -- Buffalo News

Insatiable joy -- The Wall Street Journal Wonderful. . .an incredibly good read -- Louisville Courier-Journal <p> Once you start Late Edition , you won't be able to put it down, even if it means staying up all night -- Buffalo News

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