Irresponsible Freaks Highball Guzzlers & Unabashed Grafters

A Bob Edwards Chrestomathy

by Bob Edwards,

Prepared & Selected with Introductory Essay by James Martin

Brindle & Glass Publishing, 2004, lightly illustrated with b/w line drawings, paperback, ISBN 0973248157

Near Fine Condition, minor edge and shelf wear, uncreased spine

'Robert Chambers Edwards (1860 - 1922) delighted discerning readers, scandalized prudes, and shattered the conventions of journalism with his series of self-published one-man newspapers.  The first collection of Edward's writings in over twenty-five years, Irresponsible Freaks, Highball Guzzlers & Unabashed Grafters captures the man in his many, oft contradictory guises: hard-drinking journalist, accomplished fiction writer, Prohibition booster, impish idol-toppler, free-thinker, reluctant MLA boffo self-promoter ...'