Author: CALLAWAY, John
Title: The Thing of It Is: With Reflections on Chicago and the Problem Society
Description: Ottawa, IL, Jameson Books, Inc, 1994. Hardcover. 8vo. Quarter burgundy cloth with silver spine lettering and blue paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. xxv, 292pp. Near fine/fine. Front flyleaf ever-so-faintly toned from long ago newsprint contact. Handsome and tight first edition of this "best of Callaway" essay collection by the award-winning Chicago journalist, radio and television personality, interviewer and moderator, and PBS news program "Chicago Tonight" founder (1936-2009) -- boldly inscribed and signed by him in blue ballpoint on front flyleaf: "For Bob & Ibby, / With Warmest / Best Wishes, / John W. Callaway / April, 1994." Recipient "Bob" is Robert Malott (1926-2018), noted Chicago civic/business leader, CEO of FMC Corporation, Republican politico and philanthropist. .

Keywords: Literary Biography Chicago


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