"In pointing us toward how to be \'better than we are, \' Gene Patterson--passionate, funny, sound of mind and full of heart--coincidentally reminds us just how fine Journalism can be.
A compelling portrait of the 1960s and the American.
Hurley Chair in Public Affairs Reporting, University of Missouri "Proves that Journalism at its best can endure as literature.
This is a wonderful, inspiring book."--Geneva Overholser, syndicated columnist, Washington Post Writers Group, and Curtis B. "In pointing us toward how to be \'better than we are, \' Gene Patterson--passionate, funny, sound of mind and full of heart--coincidentally reminds us just how fine Journalism can be