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