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Full Swing
Ira Berkow
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Description for Full Swing
Paperback. In this joyful, moving, and often funny memoir, Ira Berkow describes his path from Maxwell Street marketplace hawker to Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Timeswriter. "A master of his trade."-Studs Terkel. Num Pages: 304 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: BG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 144 x 22. Weight in Grams: 435.
It was a long way from the gritty streets of Springfield Avenue on Chicago's West Side, and hawking stockings in the old Maxwell Street marketplace, to a position as sports columnist and feature writer for the New York Times, and a share in the Pulitzer Prize. But Ira Berkow made that improbable journey. In this joyful, moving, and often funny memoir, he describes how he climbed up to become not just a sportswriter but a writer. His early years were not exactly promising. For someone who suffered through poor grades in high school and flunked out of his first crack ... Read more
It was a long way from the gritty streets of Springfield Avenue on Chicago's West Side, and hawking stockings in the old Maxwell Street marketplace, to a position as sports columnist and feature writer for the New York Times, and a share in the Pulitzer Prize. But Ira Berkow made that improbable journey. In this joyful, moving, and often funny memoir, he describes how he climbed up to become not just a sportswriter but a writer. His early years were not exactly promising. For someone who suffered through poor grades in high school and flunked out of his first crack ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Ivan R Dee, Inc United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Chicago, United States
ISBN
9781566637558
SKU
V9781566637558
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Ref
99-15
About Ira Berkow
Ira Berkow has been a sports columnist and feature writer for the New York Times for more than twenty years. In 2001 he shared the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting with his article on "The Minority Quarterback," later published by Ivan R. Dee in a book of the same name. He is the author of more than a dozen books, ... Read more
Reviews for Full Swing
A sheer delight...Berkow proves that nothing can hold him back. And the result is a home run.
Rick Telander, author, Heaven Is a Playground A classy writer, no matter what his domain.... Berkow is a master of his trade.
Studs Terkel He belongs to that rare breed...a writer who specializes in sports but whose subjects represent a broad ... Read more
Rick Telander, author, Heaven Is a Playground A classy writer, no matter what his domain.... Berkow is a master of his trade.
Studs Terkel He belongs to that rare breed...a writer who specializes in sports but whose subjects represent a broad ... Read more