Jake Tapper on Writing Novels, the '70s, Print Days, Rupert Murdoch, and the New CNN
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The Daredevil Evil Knievel
A character in the novel it tells Lucy you can walk through two doors one door is Bill Sapphire one door is Jimmy Breslin and what you're saying is you would walk through the third door which is Hunter Thompson and Joe Esther Haas. There's also a difference between because Breslin was like a player in New York news and one of the reasons for people who don't know that his story is mentioned in this book is because the summer of Sam. The killer like he wrote to Jimmy Bresli he wrote letters toJimmy Breslin, so I mean that's how important Jimmy Breslim was in 1977 in the summer but yeah no I'm sorry not Margaret's the mom
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