"In his memoir, Louis Rubin takes us back to the days when Coca-Colas were called "dopes" and the newspaper business was still a young man's best entree to the world of letters. Rubin brings to life the newsroom of the 1940s and 1950s and makes real the seductive lures of the low-paying but exciting work of the reporter. And ultimately, this consummate man of words discloses why he left the career he had pursued since the age of ten, when he produced his first newspaper using carbon copies."--BOOK JACKET.