A native Detroiter, McGraw worked for 37 years at The Detroit Free Press, where he served as a freelance writer, city desk reporter, sports writer, deputy metro editor, foreign correspondent, columnist and blogger. His writing also appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Toronto Globe and Mail, Newsweek, the London-based History Workshop Journal, the Fifth Estate and Orbit. He founded the Droog Press and taught journalism at Wayne State University, the University of Michigan-Dearborn and Oakland University.
The small, red-covered book resembles the collected thoughts of
Chairman Mao. But history does not record that Mao ever called a
political foe 'pruneface, ' or a foreign leader 'a mean sucker.'
Such wry and ribald utterances come from Detroit's Mayor Coleman
Young . . . a barb-tongued Democrat whom metro Detroiters either
love or love to lambaste. Through eighteen years in office, Young
has left a trail of trademark sayings-from courageous to
outrageous."-- "USA Today"
The Quotations of Mayor Coleman A. Young amasses an impressive
array of one-liners and insults and poignant commentaries from
Detroit's singular chief exec, spanning the nearly forty years
between Young's bold testimony to Joe McCarthy's feared House
Committee on Un-American Activities to his fifth term as Detroit's
mayor."-- "The Detroit News"
What I dislike most about this book, in fact, what I absolutely
loathe, abhor, and detest about this book is the fact that I wasn't
smart enough to write it first. What a great idea."--Susan Watson
"The Detroit Free Press"
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