Chain Gang Farewell

About the Book

Anyone who ever worked for a money-grubbing newspaper chain that routinely grinds up reporters and throws them on the scrap heap will identify with Chain Gang Farewell. This work in the form of a fictional memoir set in Hawaii lays bare the infighting and back-stabbing, but also illuminates the spirited dedication and moxie that hard-bitten survivors in this harsh game bring to the task.

About the Author

Clive Rivers grew up in Midwest farm country, earning bachelors and master?s degrees from a Big Ten school. His life includes a total of five years Army service, one-and-a-half years of that in Korea in the 1960s.

Married and divorced, he has a son and daughter. A versatile, journeyman newspaperman in one of the far western states, starting in 1964, he explains his succinct style in equally succinct terms??More than three-and-a-half decades of newswriting taught me not to waste words.?