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Jimmy Breslin


(born Oct. 17, 1929, Jamaica, N.Y., U.S.) U.S. columnist and novelist. During his long newspaper career Breslin became known as a tough-talking voice of his native Queens, a working-class New York City borough. He started as a copyboy, then established himself as a sportswriter; later, as a syndicated columnist and contributor to numerous publications, he wrote with passion and personal involvement on politics and social issues, often focusing on injustice and corruption. He won a 1986 Pulitzer Prize for newspaper columns championing ordinary citizens. Among his books are the novel The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight (1969).

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(b. 1930)

1969The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight. The New York journalist and columnist's first novel is a comic depiction of inept New York underworld figures. World Without End, Amen (1973), Table Money (1987), and He Got Hungry and Forgot His Manners (1987) would follow, all dealing with various aspects of New York City from a working-class perspective.
1996I Want to Thank My Brain for Remembering Me. A life-threatening bout with a brain aneurysm occasions this memoir, which, as reviewer Christopher Lehmann-Haupt observes, provides a "dizzying glimpse of great depths, both of his own brain under a microscope and of his gratitude to the medicine that saved his life." Breslin, a New York journalist and columnist, is the author of The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight (1969), .44 (1978), and Table Money (1987).

 
Quotes By: Jimmy Breslin

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"Media, the plural of mediocrity."

"All political power is primarily an illusion. Illusion. Mirrors and blue smoke, beautiful blue smoke rolling over the surface of highly polished mirrors, first a thin veil of blue smoke, then a thick cloud that suddenly dissolves into wisps of blue smoke, the mirrors catching it all, bouncing it back and forth."

 
Wikipedia: Jimmy Breslin

Jimmy Breslin (born October 17, 1930) is an American columnist and author who has written numerous novels and appeared regularly in various newspapers in New York City, where he lives. On November 2, 2004 he retired as a regular columnist from Newsday but stated his intention to continue writing. In his final Newsday column, Breslin incorrectly predicted a Kerry victory in the 2004 Presidential election.

Breslin was born in Jamaica, New York. In 1969, he ran unsuccessfully as an independent for New York City Council President allied with writer Norman Mailer running for Mayor, with the agenda of New York City secession as the 51st state.

According to film director William Friedkin, Breslin was originally hired to play the role of Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle in the 1971 film The French Connection, and completed three weeks of rehearsals with co-star Roy Scheider before Friedkin decided to recast the role.

In 1977, the Son of Sam killer, David Berkowitz, addressed a letter to Breslin at the height of the Son of Sam scare in New York City.

In 1985 he received a George Polk Award for Metropolitan Reporting.

He won the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary.

Among his notable columns, perhaps the best known was published the day after John F. Kennedy's funeral, focusing on the man who had dug the President's grave.[1] The column was indicative of Breslin's style, which often highlights how major events or the actions of those considered "newsworthy" affect the "common man."

In The Gift of A Water Buffalo, an article written in December 2003, he describes purchasing a Water Buffalo for an impoverished family through the nonprofit charitable organization Heifer International. He claims that Heifer International is the only charity he has ever endorsed.

Breslin is married to former New York City Councilmember Ronnie Eldridge. His daughter Rosemary died June 14, 2004 from a rare blood disease.

Works include

  • 1962 ASIN B0007DY5XS
  • 1963 Can't Anybody Here Play This Game?
  • 1969 World of Jimmy Breslin ISBN 0-345-21651-2
  • 1969 Running Against the Machine: A Grass Roots Race for the New York Mayoralty
  • 1970 The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight ISBN 0-316-11174-0
  • 1973 World without End, Amen ISBN 0-670-79020-6
  • 1976 How the Good Guys Finally Won ISBN 0-345-25001-X
  • 1977 Breslin to .44 Calibur Killer:Give up!It's the only way out.
  • 1978 .44 ISBN 0-670-32432-9
  • 1983 Forsaking All Others ISBN 0-449-20250-X
  • 1986 Table Money ISBN 0-89919-312-9
  • 1988 He Got Hungry and Forgot His Manners ISBN 0-89919-311-0
  • 1991 ISBN 0-89919-984-4
  • 1997 I Want to Thank My Brain for Remembering Me : A Memoir ISBN 0-316-11879-6
  • 2002 ISBN 0-940159-77-5
  • 2002 I Don't Want to Go to Jail : A Novel ISBN 0-316-12032-4
  • 2002 The Short Sweet Dream of Eduardo Gutierrez ISBN 0-609-60827-4
  • 2004 The Church That Forgot Christ ISBN 0-7432-6647-1
  • 2005 America's Mayor: The Hidden History of Rudy Giuliani's New York -preface to Robert Pollner's book. ISBN 1-932360-58-1
  • 2007 America's Mayor, America's President? The Strange Career of Rudy Giuliani - Preface to Robert Pollner's next book ISBN 1-933368-72-1

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