Walter Winchell Author:Michael Herr A streamlined hybrid of novel and screenplay, Walter Winchell tells the story of the failed vaudevillian who became this country's most influential gossip columnist and "wizard of the vicarious." — From Publishers Weekly — This biographical fiction portrays American journalist and ideologue Winchell with a style derived from his dist... more »inctive tone and bravado. "The pacing is choppy and impatient, as if deliberation were an indulgence," said PW. Winchell's rise to fame is described "with an unctuous regard for those with power and a mixture of schmaltz and repulsion toward the disenfranchised."
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