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An Elegy to Old-time Political Reporting.(Review) (book reviews)

American Journalism Review,  November, 1999  by STEPP, CARL SESSIONS

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Fat Man in a Middle Seat: Forty Years of Covering Politics By Jack Germond Random House 304 pages; $25.95

Jack Germond has long been the Hubert Humphrey of political reporters: a happy scribbler good-timing his way through campaign after campaign with joie de journalism and pride in old-time street-level news hawking.

That spirit is in full run in his puckishly titled new memoir. "Fat Man" delivers the bawdy backstage stories, irreverent asides and occasional haymakers that have been Germond's signature with Gannett, the Washington Star, the Baltimore Sun and various ...

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