Terra Alta WV – Rick Hill, the underdog publisher of The Lawnsville Crier continues his fight to hold elected public officials accountable for Jordan County’s corrupt old-line political machine in this fast-moving novel, The Pulse of the City– the fourth in the award-winning Rick Hill Series.
One of the few times the old-line faction outsmarted the Crier publisher resulted in a takeover of the Lawnsville City Council.
The Pulse of the City, expands the behind-the-scenes look at The Lawnsville Crier beyond the duty to hold public officials accountable. It pulls the curtain back to show the everyday routine – less glamorous – things the paper features that draw readers and give the community pride and an identity.
C. D. “Tony” Hylton, III has been around journalism nearly all of 82 years. He was less than a month old when printers’ ink was applied to his tiny feet and the images made on newspaper as his sportswriter dad held him as his mom looked on.
His journalism career has taken many forms – Editor/Publisher of the Hinton (WV) Daily News (now Hinton News); public relations practitioner for a Washington, D.C. based national trade association and Weirton Steel in West Virginia; Communications Director, AARP Virginia; and Public Information Officer (PIO) for a major U.S. Army Command in Vietnam.
The Pulse of the City, the fourth novel in The Rick Hill Series, continues Tony’s examination of the interaction between principled Journalism and the rough-and-tumble brand of local politics found in southern West Virginia in the 1960s.
Tony is a proud double-graduate of West Virginia University (Bachelor of Science, Journalism) and Master of Arts, Political Science. He is a former member of the West Virginia House of Delegates.
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The Pulse of the City by C. D. “Tony” Hylton III, ISBN 9781958914786, 6 x 9, 240 pgs, pb, Retail $19.99