false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177628018m/721786.jpg 721786 2 Larry Kane, dean of Philadelphia news anchors, arrived in town to take a job as a radio broadcaster on September 12, 1966. Driving across the Walt Whitman Bridge he spotted several fires raging to the south. After paying his toll, he drove to a pay phone and called the fire emergency line. The dispatcher responded, "Whateryoutawkin about? Them there's oil refineries." <P>Thirty-four years later, Larry knows all about the oil refineries. In fact, there's very little that goes on in Philadelphia that he hasn't reported on at one time or another. And it's all here in this easy-reading look at Philadelphia government and politics, and the trials of a journalist trying to cover them. <P>For Larry Kane watchers, this book answers some nagging questions: Why did he leave for New York and why did he come back? What's the story behind the Bill Green lawsuit? Does he apply his own makeup? Larry is candid about his own mistakes, and about his successes. He talks about his insecurities and the strain of living life in the spotlight. <P>But this is first and foremost a book about Philadelphia by a man who knows the city intimately. He has been close to more Philadelphia power figures than perhaps any other person. Here he talks personally about Ed Rendell, Arlen Specter, Vince Fumo, Lynne Abraham, John Cardinal Krol, Leon Sullivan, and, of course, the legendary Frank Rizzo. He has visited Jimmy Tayoun in jail, co-hosted a weekend radio marathon with John Lennon, and interviewed shirtless Lenny Dykstra, who insisted that the news team could just clip the microphone to his chest hair. <P>Larry also has tales to tell about watching Martin Luther King Jr.'s killer being apprehended in Heathrow Airport, about barely escaping the riot at the 1968 Chicago Democratic Convention, about traveling to earthquake-stricken Italy and to dissent-torn Israel. He has even been to Alaska to see the Pope. (Yes, he's also met him more conventionally at the Vatican.) <P>These are the reminiscences of a master-storyteller, a man whose job has been to see the city accurately and report on it informatively. Whether you're more familiar with Richardson Dilworth or Boyz II Men, you will laugh, groan, and be moved by Larry Kane's view of Philadelphia. 708025 2000 Larry Kane's Philadelphia total:4|3:4| 4 12 7 0 721786 1566399610 9781566399616 3 0 3.00 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177628018m/721786.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/721786.Larry_Kane_s_Philadelphia 3 0 false Sat Jan 17 06:56:32 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 17 06:56:32 -0800 2009 721786 1566399610 9781566399616 3 0 3.00 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177628018m/721786.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/721786.Larry_Kane_s_Philadelphia 0 0 false Sun Jan 04 12:33:53 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 04 12:33:53 -0800 2009 721786 1566399610 9781566399616 3 0 3.00 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177628018m/721786.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/721786.Larry_Kane_s_Philadelphia 3 0 false Sun Jul 27 19:58:27 -0700 2008 Sun Jul 27 19:58:27 -0700 2008 721786 1566399610 9781566399616 3 0 3.00 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177628018m/721786.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/721786.Larry_Kane_s_Philadelphia 0 0 false Wed May 07 20:11:53 -0700 2008 Wed May 07 20:11:53 -0700 2008 3035210 1566398061 9781566398060 1 0 3.00 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3035210.Larry_Kanes_Philadelphia 0 0 false Wed Mar 26 08:01:17 -0700 2008 Wed Mar 26 08:01:17 -0700 2008 3035210 1566398061 9781566398060 1 0 3.00 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3035210.Larry_Kanes_Philadelphia 3 0 false Sun Mar 16 19:42:43 -0700 2008 Sun Mar 16 19:42:43 -0700 2008 721786 1566399610 9781566399616 3 0 3.00 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177628018m/721786.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/721786.Larry_Kane_s_Philadelphia 3 0 false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Aug 31 09:18:53 -0700 2007 Fri Aug 31 09:19:19 -0700 2007 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=721786