The Telephone Booth Indian

Name: The Telephone Booth Indian
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A.J. Liebling

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English

Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday Del
13 July 2004

Crime & criminology

Series: Library of Larceny

A.J. Liebling is a figure who rivals Joseph Mitchell for the esteem in which he is held as one of the greatest journalists of urban life who ever lived.

Hence, this entry in the Library of Larceny has a literary cachet to add to its appeal to connoisseurs of low life.

A classic work on Broadway sharpers, grifters, and con men by the late, great New Yorker journalist A. J. Liebling.

Often referred to as ""Liebling lowlife pieces,"" the essays in The Telephone Booth Indian boisterously celebrate raffishness.

A. J. Liebling appreciated a good scam and knew how to cultivate the scammers.

Telephone Booth Indians (entrepreneurs so impecunious that they conduct business from telephone booths in the lobbies of New York City office buildings) and a host of other petty nomads of Broadway-with names like Marty the Clutch and Count de Pennies-are the protagonists in this incomparable Liebling work.

In The Telephone Booth Indian, Liebling proves just why he was the go-to man on New York lowlife and con culture; this is the master at the top of his form, uncovering scam after scam and writing about them with the wit and charisma that established him as one of the greatest journalists of his generation and one of New York's finest cultural chroniclers.

By: A.J. Liebling
Imprint: Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday Del
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 13mm
Weight: 326g
ISBN: 9780767917360
ISBN 10: 0767917367
Series: Library of Larceny
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 13 July 2004
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

A. J. LIEBLING joined the staff of The New Yorker in 1935 and stayed there until his death in 1963. His many books include The Earl of Louisiana, Back Where I Came From, Between Meals, and The Sweet Science, which was recently voted the finest sports book of all time.