This collection of Royko s best early columns from the "Chicago Daily News "1960 1966 was first published in 1967.Here the young journalist makes fun of the House Un-American Activities Committee, television commercials, racism, corrupt police, Mayor Daley, and the Mob.At the time, Royko was already a prominent critic of machine politics and city-hall corruption; yet he writes with such affection for Chicago and its people, and with such quirky humor, that the book is most of all just hilarious. We are replacing the original Introduction with a new Foreword by Rick Kogan"