On this episode of the IU Press podcast, author Ray Boomhower discusses his latest book John Bartlow Martin: A Voice for the Underdog. During the 1940s and 1950s, Martin's name dominated the pages of the “big slicks,” the Saturday Evening Post, LIFE, Harper’s, Look, and Collier’s. Over a career that spanned nearly fifty years, his peers lauded him as “the best living reporter,” the “ablest crime reporter in America,” and “one of America’s premier seekers of fact.”
Boomhower covers Bartlow’s career, his Indiana upbringing, and his connections to some of the most prominent Democratic politicians of the 20th century in this interview:
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