Both humorous and serious.

This book is buoyant and crunchy from end to end.

Calvin Trillin is an annoyingly good writer.

Trillin engages readers through a veritable history of journalism that meanders through decades, subjects, and personalities.

Trillin presents a clever, wry, piercing, and even poetic love song to journalism and the writers, editors, columnists, and readers who show, with every word, that they are the people’s champions..

Trillin covers a half-century of journalism with his usual droll observations. A self-described 'jester among the jackals of the press' skewers and praises in equal measure in this entertaining work..

Invaluable.