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Irresponsible Freaks, Highball Guzzlers & Unabashed Grafters
Bob Edwards
其他書名
A Bob Edwards Chrestomathy ...
出版
Brindle and Glass
, 2004
主題
Biography & Autobiography / Entertainment & Performing Arts
History / General
History / Canada / General
History / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
Humor / General
Humor / Form / Essays
Humor / Topic / Politics
Literary Criticism / American / General
Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection
Political Science / General
ISBN
0973248157
9780973248159
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=BSc_fIw5POwC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
Bob Edwards, the Great White North's equivalent to H. L. Mencken, remains a singular figure in Canadian journalism. His newspapers, published in Wetaskiwin, Leduc, High River, Strathcona, Winnipeg, Port Arthur, and most famously Calgary, skewered politics, society, and business leaders with a fearlessness and outrageousness rarely seen then, now, or in between.As editor James Martin points out in his illuminating introduction, Bob Edwards seems more modern the farther back in history he recedes; he was the granddaddy of Gonzo Journalism à la Hunter S. Thompson, a freewheeling cultural critic in the spirit of Lester Bangs, a pioneer of satirical reform as evidenced in
Frank
magazine, and a spoofer of the po-faced reporting of his day in precisely the same way that
The Onion
is now.
Irresponsible Freaks, Highball Guzzlers and Unabashed Grafters
features mountains of Edwards's superb aphorisms, a generous helping of his longer and lesser-known works, and some choice items which have never before seen print, as well as miraculous archival discoveries and many cartoons from Edwards's celebrated
Eye Opener.
It is a welcome addition to the Bob Edwards canon for those who thought they knew everything about him, and an eye-opening introduction to the uninitiated: "He was writing this stuff a hundred years ago!"