Ebook: The Good Times

Intro; The Good Times; Copyright; Cousin Edwin; Deems; Marydell Road; Hemingway; Mr. Dorsey; Uncle Gene; Murder; Paying the Dues; Inside; Mimi; Ed Young; Money; Day Off; Fog; Innocent Abroad; Buck; Anglia Days; The Crown; Paradise; Fathers; Hagerty; Jumper; Johnson; Lawrence; Player; Zeus; Morrisonville; Gallery; More from Russell Baker; Connect with Diversion Books;Picking up where his award winning and bestselling memoir GROWING UP left off, Baker tells how he made it from covering the Baltimore police beat to the streets of London where he reported on the Queen of England, becoming a White House correspondent and ascending to columnist at the New York Times at the age of 36. It a riveting portrayal of the newspaper world in the mid 20th century before the days of journalism degrees, and the story of how a boy raised on his determined mother's work ethic achieves much of what he wanted, but is "always slightly guilty for not amounting to something a little bit more."