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My Wild Trip from Professor to New Journalist with Outrageous Visits from Clint Eastwood, Reggie Jackson, Larry Flynt, and other American Icons
Tyrus Books
March 2012
On Sale: March 20, 2012
424 pages ISBN: 1440533148 EAN: 9781440533143 Kindle: B007L7LXVA Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction
After spending time as a professor in upstate New York,
Robert Ward decided to give journalism a try. What followed were two decades of assignments for New Times,
GQ, SPORT, Rolling Stone, and other publications, covering
the biggest stars of the sporting, music, art, and film
worlds. This collection includes Ward's celebrated story on
Reggie Jackson that nearly tore the New York Yankees apart
(and was later brought to life in an ESPN miniseries "The
Bronx Is Burning"); a profile of the "outlaw" country music
movement of Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Jerry Jeff
Walker, and David Allan Coe; and an insightful feature on
Hustler publisher Larry Flynt as a young pornographer that
almost cost Ward his life. Also included are essays about the former premier of Vietnam
Nguyen Cao Ky trying to adjust to life in California; an
aging Lee Marvin dealing with the survivor's guilt from his
time in World War II; and profiles of LeRoy Neiman, Robert
Mitchum, and a variety of fringe characters on the American
scene.
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