If you worked for a boss known as The Frog how might you celebrate the boss’s birthday? If you were lucky, as Jim Naughton was, to work at The Philadelphia Inquirer under Gene Roberts, you’d conspire to put 46 bullfrogs in his office when he turned 46. You’d urge the Mormon Tabernacle Choir to sing happy birthday on another occasion. You’d help staffers bring a camel into his fifth-floor office. You’d encourage the staff, even the artistic malcontent who crafted puppets lampooning bosses, to make fun of the bigwigs. In this memoir of a journalist Tom Brokaw called the Prince of Pranks, you’ll learn the naked truth about the Search for the Mother of the Unknown Soldier, The Elephant in the Driveway, The Casket in the Cubicle, the Boohoo Man on the Train, The President Who Let a Sheep into the Hilton, The Pundit Who Jumped in the Pool, Big League Shortstop-in-a-Cake, Scratching a Body Part at The New York Times, and more. And you’ll affirm that... More > laughter in the office is magical.< Less
