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Fought when radio was first introduced, the Press-Radio war was an attempt on the part of print journalists to block the emergence of radio news. For nearly a decade, the newspapers of America fought to keep broadcast journalism off the air, exerting various forms of economic, regulatory, and legal pressureā¦
Why read it?
1 author picked The Man Who Came Uptown as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Fair warning: I grew up in the Washington, D.C. area so Iām not impartial here, but I loveĀ this book.
Pelecanos really just dropped me into the D.C. of my youth. The plotting here is great as is the characterization. Every character feels like a real person that you might meet in a bar or some seedy back room.
The suspense, the tension, the characterās individual motivations for stepping into the quagmire Pelecanos puts them in, is spot on. And it all leads up to an ending that is both shocking and, in hindsight, inevitable.Ā
From K.D.'s list on big city private eyes.
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