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Rock County, Minnesota, was just one of thousands of communities across the nation seeing World War II from a great distance and feeling it firsthand. Day after day the Rock County Star-Herald featured harrowing headlines about the action and the poignant smiling faces of local boys missing or killed overseas. Through the best and worst of those days Al McIntosh, the paper’s editor, published columns that his readers and neighbors came to depend on for comfort, direction, information, and insight. Collected here, these columns comprise an intimate chronicle of the second world war on the home front.
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Ruben Aguirre
reviewed Selected Chaff: The Wartime Columns of Al McIntosh, 1941-1945 on December 08, 2019 Selected Chaff: The Wartime Columns of Al McIntosh, 1941-1945
One of my first grown-up jobs was for a small newspaper in Hutchinson, Minnesota. The internship was short but left a lasting impression: communicate clearly and realize that people care about what they're reading.
I'm not in the news business today, but the lesson holds true.
After watching Ken Burns' sprawling The War documentary (and hearing Tom Hanks' sober and charming readings of these columns), I knew I had to track this book down. I'm very glad I did.
Efficient to a fault, genuine, sober, silly, helpful, and even prescriptive, McIntosh's columns are a breath of fresh air. A true time machine.
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