--- product_id: 41868256 title: "West End" brand: "crockett white" price: "S/.133" currency: PEN in_stock: true reviews_count: 8 category: "Books" url: https://www.desertcart.pe/products/41868256-west-end store_origin: PE region: Peru --- # West End **Brand:** crockett white **Price:** S/.133 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** West End by crockett white - **How much does it cost?** S/.133 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.pe](https://www.desertcart.pe/products/41868256-west-end) ## Best For - crockett white enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted crockett white brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description About the Author Crockett White is a Tennessee native who has taught political science at Harvard and writing at Middle Tennessee State University, and whose work has been published by many publications, including the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune and Rolling Stone. 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His narrator, David Arthur, is a boy from the wrong side of the river in a Tennessee town at the advent of the Civil Rights era who’ll be given a tutorial in bare-knuckled reporting and no-holds-barred politics from hard-nosed mentors in city rooms and on campaign trails. On the way, he will encounter a cast of scoundrels, mountebanks and confidence men whom we’d recognize on any of Twain’s Mississippi riverboats. Their antics provide a political theater of the absurd, bouncing between boardroom farce and the bedroom variety, all of it told with rueful humor by a narrator who maintains a generous fondness for his flawed and failed characters whatever their foibles. Crockett White invokes the shade of Jack Burden, the compromised Southern newsman of “All the King’s Men,” as inspiration for his own beleaguered hero, but a more fitting analogy, for this reader, is Jay Gatsby. Because, essentially, this is a novel about class. Like young Jimmy Gatz, David Arthur will struggle to wrench himself from a hard-scrabble existence and force his way into a resistant social realm that he seeks to attain. And, like Gatsby, David’s bittersweet pursuit of a lifelong love, will be shrouded by the imperatives of status. What saves David Arthur is that his true love is not a woman but a newspaper or, rather, the romance of newspapering as it was practiced in the second half of the 20th Century. And, although besieged by the media chains who sapped the energy from the independent papers, David Arthur remains an unreconstructed rebel, an incorrigible romantic, and a noble one. In telling, his tale, Crockett White offers a riveting, narrative of life in the fast lanes of journalism. A master story-teller, he makes you want to turn the page. ---Jack Schwartz was formerly Book Editor of Newsday. “West End” is not just a grand newspaper story but it’s a great American story.It is at once a coming-of-age tale, a celebration of newspapering at its most exuberant, and a lament for the end of a journalistic era of crusading editors and feisty newsmen who were as colorful as the larger-than-life characters they covered. Crockett White has a pitch-perfect ear for the rhythms of newsrooms, the argot of cops and con artists and the sad chords the human heart. His narrator, David Arthur, is a boy from the wrong side of the river in a Tennessee town at the advent of the Civil Rights era who’ll be given a tutorial in bare-knuckled reporting and no-holds-barred politics from hard-nosed mentors in city rooms and on campaign trails. On the way, he will encounter a cast of scoundrels, mountebanks and confidence men whom we’d recognize on any of Twain’s Mississippi riverboats. Their antics provide a political theater of the absurd, bouncing between boardroom farce and the bedroom variety, all of it told with rueful humor by a narrator who maintains a generous fondness for his flawed and failed characters whatever their foibles. Crockett White invokes the shade of Jack Burden, the compromised Southern newsman of “All the King’s Men,” as inspiration for his own beleaguered hero, but a more fitting analogy, for this reader, is Jay Gatsby. Because, essentially, this is a novel about class. Like young Jimmy Gatz, David Arthur will struggle to wrench himself from a hard-scrabble existence and force his way into a resistant social realm that he seeks to attain. And, like Gatsby, David’s bittersweet pursuit of a lifelong love, will be shrouded by the imperatives of status. What saves David Arthur is that his true love is not a woman but a newspaper or, rather, the romance of newspapering as it was practiced in the second half of the 20th Century. And, although besieged by the media chains who sapped the energy from the independent papers, David Arthur remains an unreconstructed rebel, an incorrigible romantic, and a noble one. In telling, his tale, Crockett White offers a riveting, narrative of life in the fast lanes of journalism. A master story-teller, he makes you want to turn the page. ---Jack Schwartz was formerly Book Editor of Newsday. “West End” is not just a grand newspaper story but it’s a great American story.It is at once a coming-of-age tale, a celebration of newspapering at its most exuberant, and a lament for the end of a journalistic era of crusading editors and feisty newsmen who were as colorful as the larger-than-life characters they covered. Crockett White has a pitch-perfect ear for the rhythms of newsrooms, the argot of cops and con artists and the sad chords the human heart. His narrator, David Arthur, is a boy from the wrong side of the river in a Tennessee town at the advent of the Civil Rights era who’ll be given a tutorial in bare-knuckled reporting and no-holds-barred politics from hard-nosed mentors in city rooms and on campaign trails. On the way, he will encounter a cast of scoundrels, mountebanks and confidence men whom we’d recognize on any of Twain’s Mississippi riverboats. Their antics provide a political theater of the absurd, bouncing between boardroom farce and the bedroom variety, all of it told with rueful humor by a narrator who maintains a generous fondness for his flawed and failed characters whatever their foibles. Crockett White invokes the shade of Jack Burden, the compromised Southern newsman of “All the King’s Men,” as inspiration for his own beleaguered hero, but a more fitting analogy, for this reader, is Jay Gatsby. Because, essentially, this is a novel about class. Like young Jimmy Gatz, David Arthur will struggle to wrench himself from a hard-scrabble existence and force his way into a resistant social realm that he seeks to attain. And, like Gatsby, David’s bittersweet pursuit of a lifelong love, will be shrouded by the imperatives of status. What saves David Arthur is that his true love is not a woman but a newspaper or, rather, the romance of newspapering as it was practiced in the second half of the 20th Century. And, although besieged by the media chains who sapped the energy from the independent papers, David Arthur remains an unreconstructed rebel, an incorrigible romantic, and a noble one. In telling, his tale, Crockett White offers a riveting, narrative of life in the fast lanes of journalism. A master story-teller, he makes you want to turn the page. ---Jack Schwartz was formerly Book Editor of Newsday. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A little printer's ink in your blood or a twitch of political ambition in you? Then Crockett White's WEST END is a must read. *by J***S on November 15, 2015* A little printer's ink in your blood or a twitch of political ambition in your body? If so, Crockett White's WEST END is a must read. Young David Arthur, an across the tracks newspaperman wannabe, is hired by one of Bluff City's two competing newspapers. He starts in the newspaper's basement morgue, but the job punches his ticket for the roller coaster ride of his life. He soon finds himself rubbing elbows with politicans great and small, society divas, bankers, swindlers, common crooks and some of the greatest smooth talking lawyers in the country. It's a page turner hard to put down and when it ends you'll wish there was more. Get the book! You'll like it ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ This a beautifully crafted novel of the that time not long ago ... *by L***N on November 4, 2015* This a beautifully crafted novel of the that time not long ago when newspapers and politicians depended on one another. The author obviously knows the scene well and the characters whose ambitions and love affairs and ideals and successes and failures he draws with a fine pen. He is an excelent story teller who makes reading a pleasure. --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.pe/products/41868256-west-end](https://www.desertcart.pe/products/41868256-west-end) --- *Product available on Desertcart Peru* *Store origin: PE* *Last updated: 2026-04-23*