Pundits, poets, and wits
Subtitle: an omnibus of American newspaper columns
By: gathered, annotated, and introduced by Karl E. Meyer.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1990
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 458
Subjects: Letters to the editor -- United States; Advice columns -- United States; American newspapers -- Sections, columns, etc
Description: Includes newspaper columns by Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine, James Madison, Willian Lloyd Garrison, Margaret Fuller, James Russell Lowell, Frederick Douglass, Frederick Law Olmstead, Walt Whitman, Mark Twain, Lafcadio Hearn, Joel Chandler Harris, Ambrose Bierce, Ring Lardner, H.L. Mencken, Will Rogers, Ben Hecht, Heywood Broun, E.B. White, Damon Runyon, Walter Winchell, Dorothy Thompson, Westbrook Pegler, Ernie Pyle, Walter Lippmann, James Reston, Joseph and Stewart Alsop, Mary McGrory, I.F. Stone, Langston Hughes, Art Buchwald, Russell Baker, William F. Buckley, Jr., Mike Royko, George F. Will, William Safire, Lewis Grizzard, Calvin Trillin, Molly Ivins, Dave Barry, among others.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 450-451) and index.