Forword by Garrison Keillor and Mark Singer. Nice clean copy, former owner blind stamp at bottom of title page, sticker shadow on front pastedown, dust jacket has some light impressions on rear panel.

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Title: The Honest Rainmaker: The Life and Times of Colonel John R.Stingo
Publisher: Fourth Estate, London
Publication Date: 1991
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1872180434
ISBN 13: 9781872180434
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

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Colonel Stingo, real name James MacDonald, was a "Turf analyst" who never made the mistake of betting himself. The author sets himself up as a Boswell to Stingo's Johnson, reporting the far-fetched stories of this self-styled Southern gentleman and massive imbiber of alcohol.

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"The Honest Rainmaker, reread with fresh wonder and gratitude, reinfects us with what was romantic about Liebling himself. At the New Yorker, Liebling's neighbors, nodding off in their thin-walled beige cubicles, were regularly jolted back to consciousness by the sound of Liebling laughing aloud as he read pages he has just pulled from the typewriter." - Garrison Keillor and Mark Singer, foreword

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