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9781592981960

A Strange Breed of Folks: Tales from the World's Second Oldest Profession

by Lavine, Mel
  • ISBN13:

    9781592981960

  • ISBN10:

    1592981968

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2007-10-18
  • Publisher: Beavers Pond Pr
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Summary

Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Joe Louis, Earl Warren and Billie Holiday are among the names brought to life in this book. But A Strange Breed of Folks is mainly about unforgettable journalists with whom the author has worked in a lifetime in journalism.

Author Biography

A Strange Breed of Folks is a story that only someone like Mel Lavine could write. A journalist for more than half a century, he has written a provocative and entertaining picture of an occupation that has sometimes been called the world's second oldest profession.Mel Lavine, a native of Boston, is a graduate of the University of Maine and the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University. A journalist in a career spanning more than fifty years he has been a newspaper reporter, a TV news anchor, and a writer and producer for NBC News and CBS News in New York. He lives in Berkeley, California.

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