Sez Who? Sez Me [Paperback]

Mike Royko (Author), Studs Terkel (Introduction)

Product Details

• Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: Warner Books Inc (Mm) (December 1983)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 044630896X
• ISBN-13: 978-0446308960
• Product Dimensions: 6.6 x 4.1 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #960,875 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Royko's best collection, April 9, 2001

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P. J. Anderson (Joliet, IL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sez Who? Sez Me (Hardcover)

This is a very funny and thought-provoking collection of newspaper columns from Royko, Chicago's great everyman. Includes such classics as: how to cure a hangover; an amusing rebuttal to a threatening letter from Frank Sinatra; and the story of a guy who climbed onto a stopped flatbed freightcar in order to get to his commuter train, only to have the freight train start into motion and carry him almost all the way to Iowa.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The friendship between Mike Royko and Studs Terkel., November 24, 1998

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[e-mail] (Newark, New Jersey) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sez Who? Sez Me (Paperback)

I rememeber when Mike Royko died Terry Gross of National Public Radio replayed an interview she did with Mike and he told a wonderful story about one of his best friends, Studs Terkel -- the man who wrote the Intro to this book.

As Mike tells it: it seems as though one day Studs was walking home and he was mugged. And the guy doing the mugging all of a sudden RECOGNIZES Studs Terkel! And Studs being an oral historian, par excellence, starts talking to the guy!

One could only imagine the inquisitiveness of someone like Studs Terkel. ... "Where are you from?" ... "How did you come to be a mugger?" ... "Could you describe the alienation that drove you to a life of crime?"

I can't remember if Mike said that Studs pulled out his ubiquitous tape recorder, but it must have been quite a moment.

Mike Royko and Studs Terkel -- two American originals! Two boats on the River of Redeeming Grace.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Legacy of a Fourth Estate Guard Dog, May 4, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: Sez Who? Sez Me (Paperback)

Mike Royko died on my 37th birthday of a brain aneurysm, at age 64. His was journalism in the finest tradition - and this anthology of articles proves it well.

Mike Royko was a journalist's journalist, and a guard dog of the common man and his liberty. His anthology shows us that it's possible to be both hardbitten and gruff without losing compassion, possible to be humorous yet cynical in the same breath, and possible to guard the freedoms of all who your written word reaches without becoming corrupted by the power that guardianship creates.

This book is the legacy of a Guard Dog who protected the reputation of the Fourth Estate and the common man's rights with unfailing vigor, unswerving courage and indefatigable tenacity. Royko's breed of Guard Dog is dying out; but we can take comfort that his legacy to the common man - the articles and Pulitzer-Prize-winning style evident in this work - are eternal, and live on.