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...Weekly owner-editor-publishers are a dying breed that became fewer when I left," Brook writes...
Alexander B. Brook, editor, publisher and owner of the Star, is the author of The Hard Way. He tells a detailed story of what really is a hard life--working from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m., reporting, managing and running the presses, eating standing up on the job and all the time staying just a step ahead of bankruptcy...
...picking and choosing which parts of a 20 year career to share with the reader, Brook is more willing to dwell on the details of town politics, printing equipment and circulation figures than he is ready to bare the details of his private thoughts, his family life, his divorce and remarriage...
...doing, he runs the risk of leaving the reader cold, but the intensity of his career as editor and publisher, as recounted in the book, have the effect of humanizing Brook and making him quite a sympathetic character...
...that is indeed so, one might be tempted to dismiss the story of Brook's career as just so much irrelevant nostalgia. That, however, would be a mistake. Brook's tale of small-town weekly newspapering has lessons for everyone--from the grandest of metropolitan daily editors to the lowliest of small-town weekly readers...