Clune, Henry W.

"Henry Clune's book about his newspaper days is an extraordinary succession of fascinating stories about the big-shots, crackpots, saints and sinners, ordinary people and citizens of high and low degree who have enlivened his beat during more than thirty years of reporting."--inside front cover.

"In this distinguished new addition to the Rivers of America series, Henry Clune traces the dramatic and colorful history of the Genesee, the 'Little River of the Senecas,' which cuts through New York State from the Pennsylvania line to Lake Ontario near Rochester."--inside front cover.

From "Kinney's Fall to Grace" to "Overmatched," a master storyteller here practices his craft. The settings include legendary newsrooms and casinos, a porno movie house, dimly lighted clubs, a quiet mansion, an isolated farmhouse and a rundown bus station."--inside front cover.

"A con woman and her unlikely corporation take over the town in the wildest, most hilarious package of rollicking Americana to come along in decades!"--back cover.

"The principal character in this new novel by Henry Clune is Dan Herne, a huge, flamboyant figure who in the course of a brief ten years raises himself from ward boss in a small city in upper New York State to be candidate for Governor."--inside front cover.