The Daily Star by Jean Léturgie

Why read the book?

Greeley rolls west with a printing press and an unshakeable faith in the free press, printing the news as he goes and refusing to soften a word of it. That honesty wins him few friends. When Luke meets the eccentric reporter, he agrees to help him set up in Dead End Gulch and to shield him from those who would rather their misdeeds stayed off the page.

The town's guilty parties fight back by every means, wrecking the press, stealing the ink, even starting a rival rag. Luke must keep the little paper alive against a town that wants it silenced.

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What I Loved

The album is a cheerful hymn to the free press, with Greeley's stubborn idealism driving the fun.

The townsfolk's ever more desperate efforts to kill the paper make for good escalating comedy, and Luke makes a steady ally to a man who will not back down.

Key Takeaway

A press that tells the truth is worth defending, however much it annoys the powerful.

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