Research Catalog

Title

Early Royko : up against it in Chicago / Mike Royko ; with a new foreword by Rick Kogan.

Author

Royko, Mike, 1932-1997.

Publication

Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2010.

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Details

Additional Authors

Kogan, Rick.

Description

xiv, 214 p.; 22 cm.

Uniform Title

• Up against it
• Chicago daily news (Chicago, Ill. : 1875)

Alternative Title

• Up against it
• Up against it in Chicago

Subject

• City and town life > Illinois > Chicago > History > 20th century
• Chicago (Ill.) > Social life and customs > 20th century
• Chicago (Ill.) > Social conditions > 20th century

Genre/Form

History

Note

• Collection of early columns from Chicago daily news.
• Originally published: Chicago : H. Regnery Co., 1967, with title Up against it.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

I may be wrong, but I doubt it. The holiday spirits of Mrs. Tooze ; Good teen-ager a pain ; A sacrifice to antipoverty gods ; Bugs in the bug ; Supreme injustice ; No offense, but ... ; The fine art of elevator-riding ; A nonconformist nonconfrontation ; Down the alley of life -- The good life. Wow! What an ear for music ; With self-confidence and dinner ; The chocolate-covered ants did it ; The overtrained computer ; The pursuit of leisure -- People I have known, or heard of, or imagined. Dutch Louie ; Surefooted Mrs. Peak ; Split-level king of the playboys ; A flaw in the gray flannel ; Patriotic Pat swings again ; Big Whitey's way ; Unbucklable Joey ; "It takes brains" ; The new rumble in teen sociology ; Folk hero of the future -- Politics, Chicago style. The sidewalk fraternity ; The Despres stomp ; The ups and downs of Frankie ; Tree-breaking ceremony ; A new era in the study of literature -- Rogues' gallery. The "hit" parade ; Murray the talent scout ; Most likely to succeed ; Pillars of the community ; Not with a "bang" but a "click" ; Hoods on beam ; Mob stacks the deck on vice squad ; Almost as good as a solution ; Some token of appreciation ; The saga of Peanuts Panczko ; Bomb investigators keep their cool -- Minority report. Outside influences ; A bizarre experiment ; Brotherhood week ; Of the people, by the people ; Your move, Dr. King ; A gas of a demonstration ; Mink now! ; It seems like only yesterday -- This sporting life. Priceless baseball interviews ; Crime of the century mere child's play ; One man's solution to those miserable mashieless months ; Another smashing victory for Gordie ; Mutt of the year ; Paragons of perseverance -- All for love. Constructive chaos ; The love song of old Giovanni ; Shocking research old news ; Shot down by love ; The kiss -- Sidestreets. But not forgotten ; The young man and the sea ; Social coup of the year ; Old-time butcher shop gets the ax ; The Great (Skid Row) Society.

ISBN

• 9780226730776 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0226730778 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2009039266

OCLC

• 441946025
• SCSB-12741884

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library