Authors:Bob Edwards, Martin James, James Martin,
Publisher: Brindle & Glass Publishing
Keywords: unabashed, grafters, guzzlers, highball, freaks, irresponsible
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2001-08-31
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0973248157
ISBN-13: 9780973248159

Bob Edwards, the Great White North’s equivalent to H. L. Mencken, remains a singular figure in Canadian journalism. His newspapers, published in Wetaskiwin, Leduc, High River, Strathcona, Winnipeg, Port Arthur, and most famously Calgary, skewered politics, society, and business leaders with a fearlessness and outrageousness rarely seen then, now, or in between.As editor James Martin points out in his illuminating introduction, Bob Edwards seems more modern the farther back in history he recedes; he was the granddaddy of Gonzo Journalism à la Hunter S. Thompson, a freewheeling cultural cri