The Last Newspaperman
by Mark Di Ionno
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Pub Date Sep 17 2012 | Archive Date Sep 01 2012
Description
Jersey in the '30s was Fred Haines's beat, though it was hardly worthy of the reporter who'd scooped the Ruth Snyder story back in '27. "The most famous Daily News cover ever," Haines bragged. His photo showed Snyder strapped to the electric chair. "Respectable" papers denounced it as vulgar, but it sold millions of copies and cemented Haines's reputation as the go-to "tabloid guy" just as celebrity worship was becoming an American obsession.
But that was before Haines had the bad sense to publicly insult an even faster-rising media star named Walter Winchell. Haines wound up on the graveyard shift at the Daily Mirror, covering the most trivial stories his editor could dredge up. And Jersey.
"Strictly Sticksville," he said, remembering a cold March night in 1932. That was the night he drove down to rural Hopewell, near Trenton, oblivious that the story of the century was about to break under his byline. The infant son of Charles Lindbergh had been kidnapped, and Haines was about to become part of a media frenzy unlike anything anyone had ever seen.
Advance Praise
"With a veteran newsman's eye for detail, a love for New Jersey history, and the sheer energy of a born storyteller, Mark Di Ionno brings a bygone age of old-time reporting to life ... and holds up a mirror to our own times as well."
-Wallace Stroby, Kings of Midnight
"What happens to a reporter who has an incredible journalistic opportunity that could hurt the people involved? Is a newspaperman's loyalty to his work or to his conscience? Mark Di Ionno poses this question in this atmospheric and highly suspenseful novel centered on the Lindbergh baby case. The Last Newspaperman kept me up all night."
-Alice Elliott Dark, In the Gloaming,
O. Henry Award winner
"The Last Newspaperman is Mark Di Ionno's rueful elegy for the rough-and-ready days of tabloid journalism. It's an imaginative reconstruction of the Lindbergh kidnapping trial. And it's a love note to New Jersey. Di Ionno and the Garden State deserve each other. I mean that as a compliment."
-P.F. Kluge, Eddie and the Cruisers
and The Master Blaster
"It is through the eyes of ruthless reporter Fred Haines that we see how modern media evolved from the remorseless, sensational journalism of the 1930s. With The Last Newspaperman, Mark Di Ionno has written the Great American newspaper novel."
-Robin Gaby Fisher,
The Woman Who Wasn't There
"Mark Di Ionno is a master storyteller, and in The Last Newspaperman he has rendered an unforgettable portrait of a man and his time. Compellingly told and beautifully written, this is a book filled with wisdom and humanity."
-Brad Parks, The Girl Next Door,
Nero- and Shamus-Award-winner
Available Editions
| EDITION | Hardcover |
| ISBN | 9780937548813 |
| PRICE | $22.95 (USD) |
| PAGES | 224 |
