Thirty Years in the Trenches: Covering Crooks, Characters, and Capers

by John Drummond

These are stories you won't read about in the Chicago guide books or travel brochures. Examine Justice Department transcripts involving mobsters and their victims. Meet some of Chicago's legendary... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1886094772
• ISBN13: 9781886094772
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Chicago Spectrum Press
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Thirty Years in the Trenches Covering Crooks, Characters and Capers

What a fasinating book.I knew Chicago had a past history but to see through the eyes of one of the true beat reproters.Great reading.What a character Mr Drummond is.Just wonderful reading.

A great yarn from a legendary reporter.

Drummond, a reporter with CBS-owned Channel 2 in Chicago for many years, is best known for covering the "Outfit" in Chicago. As any Chicagoan can attest, he also covered many characters and other crooks, besides the big fish that hogged the headlines. Although there is a chapter on Tony "Big Tuna" Accardo, Drummond wisely focuses on the little guys that many of us forgot. This is a smart choice, for much is already written about the big guys like Accardo and if Drummond wanted to cover them right, he would of had to have written a separate book on several people. The only thing missing in the book is more on Drummond himself, for if you are a personal friend of his, as I am, you know that he is more interesting than any of the crooks and capers he ever covered. Read this book and try to learn as much as you can about John Drummond - a living Chicago legend and a journalism institution!