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The Life of Kings: The Baltimore Sun and the Golden Age of the American Newspaper

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In an age when local day-to-day papers with formerly robust reporting are cutting sections or even closing their doors, the contributors to The Life of Kings celebrate the heyday of one such paper, the Baltimore Sun, when it set the agenda for Baltimore, used to be a force in Washington, and extended its reach around the world. Contributors like David Simon, author of HBO’s The Wire, and renowned political cartoonist Kevin Kallaugher (better referred to as KAL), tell what it used to be like to work in what may have been the last golden age of American newspapers — when journalism still appeared like “the life of kings” that H.L. Mencken so cheerfully remembered. The writers on this volume recall the standards that made the Sun and other fine independent newspapers a bulwark of civic life for goodbye. Their contributions affirm that the core principles they followed are no less imperative for the new varieties of journalism: a strong sense of the public interest in whose name they were acting, a reverence for accuracy, and an obligation to keep faith with the reader.

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