One More Time: The Best of Mike Royko

With the incisive pen of a newspaperman and the compassionate soul of a poet, Mike Royko was a Chicago institution who became, in Jimmy Breslin's words, "the best journalist of his time." Royko wrote a daily column for nearly thirty-five years--first for the Chicago Daily News, then the Sun-Times, and finally the Tribune--and his Pulitzer Prize--winning commentary was syndicated in more than 600 newspapers nationwide. Pretension and hypocrisy were his targets, and his well-aimed salvos, delivere…