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For the Love of Mike: More of the Best of Mike Royko

This collection of Royko columns is basically the leftovers from the previous collection, from the sixties on up, and worth getting if you’re a Royko fan.

The Best of Mike Royko: One More Time

If you’re looking for a grand overview of Mike Royko’s essays, this is a great place to start. It includes his very first essay from September 6, 1963, and provides some of his best works from the sixties, seventies, eighties, and nineties, ending with his very last column from March 21, 1997, which was, fittingly, about both the Cubs and Sam Sianis of the Billy Goat Tavern.

Dr. Kookie, You’re Right!

Mike Royko’s final collection of essays, from the second half of the eighties, highlights his bias as much as his great writing.

The World of Mike Royko

Doug Moe’s “The World of Mike Royko” is not as deep as Ciccone’s “A Life in Print” tries to be, but it does what it does very well.

Mike Royko: A Life in Print

Mike Royko, according to author and fellow newsman F. Richard Ciccone, was the heir to the Mencken responsibility of satirizing the powerful and protecting the weak. I believe he came close, but Ciccone’s book doesn’t show it.

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