Neil Seinberg, Author, Neil Steinberg, Author Doubleday Books $19.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-385-48171-7
Steinberg, a reporter for the Chicago-Sun Times, takes aim here at 26 of his pet peeves ranging from advertising to zealot. Along the way he skewers such past or present personalities as Elvis and Oprah, firms such as Disney and McDonald's and...
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Neil Steinberg, Author . Ballantine $22.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-345-43675-7
In 1999, Steinberg, a columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times, decided that he and his father, Bob, a retired NASA physicist, would spend three months together aboard a merchant marine training ship, just like the one on which Bob worked as a radio...
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Neil Steinberg, Author . Dutton $24.95 (270p) ISBN 978-0-525-95065-3
Steinberg, a columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times
, admitted he was an alcoholic—only he'd rather be called a “drunkard,” a more colorful “slur”—only after a judge sentenced him to rehab. He'd hit his...
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Neil Steinberg, Author Doubleday Books $17.5 (258p) ISBN 978-0-385-47291-3
Chicago Sun-Times reporter Steinberg's book of humor is anything but a ``complete & utter failure.'' Rather, it is an informed and witty look at events, products and people that either never succeeded or first scored victories then faded away. He...
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Neil Steinberg. Univ. of Chicago, $25 (256p) ISBN 978-0-226-77205-9
Sixty years ago in a now-famous New Yorker article, A.J. Liebling cast a withering gaze on Chicago calling it the "Second City." One Chicagoan responded to his jabs with a postcard that read, "You were in never in Chicago." Chicago Sun-Times...
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