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John Phillips has led many lives: among them bartender, beauty products salesman, union representative, sportswriter. Running a bar was the best and worst of times. (Think sending a guy back to jail for burglary and having to pay off cops to ensure they'd be there when needed.) Of course, there were barroom dramas-good, bad, and just weird. All of it while trying to look the other way as Staten Island gave up guys to die in Vietnam and dancing as fast as he could to not be one of them.As a sportswriter, Phillips covered more than 60 world title fights and their scenes, filled with a wonderland of characters-many tough, decent, and funny, others cold-eyed predators, always, always on the hustle. Among other events he covered were the Olympics, World Series, Super Bowl, figure skating, tennis, and horse racing. He also reported from Cuba, where he spent three days in a hospital because he was dumb enough to drink unfiltered water at the airport.
""Beneath the nostalgic memories of lava lamps and tie dye of the 1960's was a grittier era unfolding in the blue-collar bars of Staten Island, the swamplands of the south and the jungles of Vietnam. John Phillips' new book Dress Whites is a cinematic collection of fascinating interlocking stories told in the styles of Quentin Tarantino and Raymond Chandler. It's a new, must-read look at how the Vietnam era shaped the lives of those who served and those left behind.""-Jody Heaps, TV producer, writer; five-time Emmy winner ""Not since Hemingway's 'Twenty Grand' and Algren's 'A Bottle of Milk for Mother' have I realized how much power is in the mastery of a short story. With Phillips it is the people-a woman becomes a war widow at age 23, a returning Vietnam vet turns to the brutal world of boxing to fund the search for his missing daughter left behind in Vietnam, the occupants of a run-down Vegas hotel battle their private demons. It's not fancy. It's not pretty. It's a journey through the dark end of real life, where people battle for a second chance. It makes you want more.""-Jerry Izenberg, columnist emeritus ""Evocatively and poignantly written, Dress Whites recreates slices of life in America as it was a half century ago.""-Thomas Hauser, author of Missing and Muhammad Ali: His Life and Times
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