{"product_id":"9781429984775","title":"Late Edition: A Love Story","description":"\u003cp\u003eA loving and laughter-filled trip back to a lost American time when the newspaper business was the happiest game in town.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a warm, affectionate true-life tale, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author Bob Greene \u003ci\u003e(When We Get to Surf City, Duty, Once Upon a Town) \u003c\/i\u003etravels back to a place where—when little more than a boy—he had the grand good luck to find himself surrounded by a brotherhood and sisterhood of wayward misfits who, on the mezzanine of a Midwestern building, put out a daily newspaper that didn't even know it had already started to die.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In some American cities,\" Greene writes, \"famous journalists at mighty and world-renowned papers changed the course of history with their reporting.\"  But at the \u003ci\u003eColumbus Citizen-Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, there was a willful rejection of grandeur—these were overworked reporters and snazzy sportswriters, nerve-frazzled editors and insult-spewing photographers, who found pure joy in the fact that, each morning, they awakened to realize: \"I get to go down to the paper again.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt least that is how it seemed in the eyes of the novice copyboy who saw romance in every grungy pastepot, a symphony in the song of every creaking typewriter.  With current-day developments in the American newspaper industry so grim and dreary, \u003ci\u003eLate Edition \u003c\/i\u003eis a Valentine to an era that was gleefully cocky and seemingly free from care, a wonderful story as bracing and welcome as the sound of a rolled-up paper thumping onto the front stoop just after dawn.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"St. Martin's Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47141859688688,"sku":"9781429984775","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781429984775_p0.jpg?v=1769903210","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781429984775","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}