zay n smith (4 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Dust jacket missing. First edition. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fair. First Edition. Dust jacket in acceptable condition. First edition, second printing. Cover and binding are worn but intact. A reading copy in fair condition. DJ has heavy edge wear with scuffing and smudging as well as tearing and paperloss. Interior of the DJ has heavy soiling. Boards have heavy shelf rubbing with scuffing and smudging as well as soiling and bumping. Endpages have moderate age-toning and smudging. Page edges have heavy age-toning with scuffing and smudging. Interior pages have moderate age-toning. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: very good. First edition. First edition (stated). Hardcover. 255 pp. Illustrated with photos. Fine but with the small Randon House red stamp bottom edge of the text block. In very good dust jacket. Scarce. The inticate story of how the Chicago Sun-Times newspaper decided to expose corruption and bribery in Chicago city government by opening its own dive-bar establishment on the North Side ("The Mirage") and staffing it with undercover reporters. The book's authors and bar's "managers", Zay N. Smith ("Norty The Bartender") and Pamela Zekman (Pam The Barmaid"), didn't have to look for corruption--it found them in the form of City inspectors examining the bar's flagrant violations of health, fire, and safethy standards, who were always willing to "work things out unofficially" for a small fee; firemen who sat in the bar selling tickets to golf tournaments when they should have been on duty; accountants who openly bragged of their ability to skim up to 70% of the bar's profits without the governmrnt noticing. The investigation led to a 25-part serial story in the Sun-Times that was nominated and was the odds-on favorite for the Pulitzer until the award committee disqualified it over concerns that the fact the paper set up the whole sting and that the reporting was undercover. Nonetheless, the story made national headlines.