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Jim Lehrer

* RK Review: Oh, Johnny

May 25, 2009

by Jim Lehrer (Random House) Veteran newsman Jim Lehrer considers loss in his newest novel, the story of a young baseball player called upon to serve his country during World War II. Like many young men of the era, Johnny Wrigley had to put his life on hold. A promising young athlete, he is sent […]

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* Review: Oh Johnny

April 26, 2009

gets a non-glowing review in The Washington Times. Upshot: The veteran newsman thinks he has things to say, about baseball, puppy love and the greatest generation. But the way in which he says those things are so bland and so uninteresting and so hackneyed and so cartoonish that one begins to speed through the pages, […]

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