CALLAWAY, John - The Thing of It Is: With Reflections on Chicago and the Problem Society

Ottawa, IL, Jameson Books, Inc, 1994. Hardcover. 8vo. Quarter burgundy cloth with silver spine lettering and blue paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. xxv, 292pp. Near fine/fine. Front flyleaf ever-so-faintly toned from long ago newsprint contact. Handsome and tight first edition of this "best of Callaway" essay collection by the award-winning Chicago journalist, radio and television personality, interviewer and moderator, and PBS news program "Chicago Tonight" founder (1936-2009) -- boldly inscribed and signed by him in blue ballpoint on front flyleaf: "For Bob & Ibby, / With Warmest / Best Wishes, / John W. Callaway / April, 1994." Recipient "Bob" is Robert Malott (1926-2018), noted Chicago civic/business leader, CEO of FMC Corporation, Republican politico and philanthropist. .

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