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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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I'll Be Home: The Writings of Jim McGrath

I'll Be Home: The Writings of Jim McGrath

McGrath, Jim
McGrath, Darryl
Healy, Howard

Paperback

Series: Excelsior Editions

Biographies GeneralWriting InstructionRegional: Middle Atlantic

ISBN10: 1438474229
ISBN13: 9781438474229
Publisher: Excelsior Ed
Published: May 1 2019
Pages: 218
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Editorials, op-eds, and other writings by a memorable newspaperman.

The winner of more awards than any editorial writer in the Albany Times Union's history, Jim McGrath was both an Albany institution and a keen observer of the world beyond his beloved adopted city. When he died in 2013 at the age of fifty-six, the newspaper lost a writer who combined a passionate advocacy for society's most vulnerable people with a scathing disregard for the elite whose actions created an underclass in the United States. His writing was often elegiac, but his take on his adopted home state of New York and his beloved Albany was variously bemused, witty, irreverent, and indignant. He could relate to the plight of the minimum-wage worker as easily as he could talk to a US senator, and he feared no one. His editorials and commentaries charted many of the most critical issues in New York and the country: the death penalty, civil liberties, gay rights, historic presidential campaigns, the economy, terrorism, and more-all with an incisiveness that remains relevant, if not more so, in the present political era.

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