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A Mailer–Breslin campaign button in 1969. Breslin began working for the Long Island Press [12] as a copy boy in the 1940s. [7] After leaving college, he became a columnist. His early columns were attributed to politicians and ordinary people that he chatted with in various watering holes near Queens Borough H
Author Richard Esposito's 2024 book "Jimmy Breslin: The Man Who Told the Truth," is a layered biography of the influential New York columnist that serves readers a buffet of startling true crime ...
Breslin and Hamill: Deadline Artists is a 2018 HBO documentary about Jimmy Breslin and Pete Hamill, "two of the most celebrated newspapermen of the 20th century" [2] who worked in New York City covering events of the late 20th century. [1] The film was directed by John Block, Jonathan Alter, and Steve McCarthy. [3]
Other books included a biography of Robert F. Kennedy; .44 (with Jimmy Breslin), a fictionalized account of the hunt for Son of Sam killer David Berkowitz; Turned On, about upper middle-class drug abuse; An Illustrated History of the Olympics, a coffee-table book on the history of the modern Olympic Games; The Perfect Jump, on the world record ...
Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper columnist Jimmy Breslin was a self-described 'street reporter' who chronicled New York City life for decades.
Hamill and Jimmy Breslin were interviewed for the 2019 HBO documentary Breslin and Hamill: Deadline Artists, which details both the friendship and competition between New York City's two most read columnists of their era. [53] A stretch of Seventh Avenue between 11th Street and 12th Street in Park Slope, Brooklyn, is named "Pete Hamill Way." [54]
Pulitzer Prize-winning newsman Jimmy Breslin, who chronicled New York City for more than 60 years, died on Sunday at age 88, media reported.
[35] [76] [77] For the defense, Jimmy Breslin testified that, in a 1985 hospital-bed interview, Cabey, while denying his own involvement, said that Allen, Canty, and Ramseur intended to rob Goetz because he looked like "easy bait," but Cabey's attorneys pointed out that Cabey had suffered brain damage prior to the interview and that Breslin's ...