Too Much Good Time

By Anthony Delano

The Sinai Desert or Elaine's on Second Avenue.
The Savoy Hotel or the Caravelle in Saigon.
Watergate or Pentecost Island.

Before news was shot on video and delivered on the internet getting the pictures home could be as dangerous as filming under fire. Reporter David Talbot and the outrageous cameraman Donnelly come from that frantic time of the Kennedy Assassination, Vietnam and the desperate Arab-Israeli wars. And, when they were at home, the racketty world of 1970s London and New York. As did sloppy, sexy Adeline Tooth, the star magazine writer who gave as good as she got at the bar in Elaine's, in a desert dugout or covering the Watergate drama.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Anthony Delano
• Release date: Jul 11, 2016
• ISBN: 9781311977595

Anthony Delano

Anthony Delano went to London from Australia after an early newspaper career there and was soon a foreign correspondent for the Daily Mirror, which at that time sold nearly five million copies daily. He was stationed in Rome during the Dolce Vita days, in Paris when General De Gaulle was dismantling the French empire, then the United States where he covered, among many other dramas, the civil rights campaign and the assassination of President John Kennedy. Additional assignments took him all over the globe: wars in Africa and the Middle East, tours with the Queen and other members of the Royal Family; most hazardous of all, perhaps, the historic Beatles tour of America. In between there were executive stints in London. He was managing editor of the Mirror when the monstrous tycoon Robert Maxwell took it over. Clearly time to go. He began to teach journalism and research it academically, gaining first a Master’s degree at Queensland University of Technology then a PhD from the University of Westminster (his 2001 doctoral thesis, The Formation of the British Journalist 1900-2000, is widely cited). He became a senior lecturer, senior research fellow and finally visiting professor at the London College of Communication. He lives in the South of France, married to Patricia, a literary scholar.

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