First, last and always, Pete Hamill, was a newspaperman from the old school — happily at home in a newsroom roaring with profanity, poetry, punishing deadlines and quirky personalities. He dropped out of high school, worked in the Brooklyn Navy Yard as a sheet metal worker, did a tour in the Navy — and then walked into the New York Post in 1960 to start working as a night-shift reporter, the start of what became a legendary career.
First, last and always, Pete Hamill, was a newspaperman from the old school — happily at home in a newsroom roaring with profanity, poetry, punishing deadlines and quirky personalities. He dropped out of high school, worked in the Brooklyn Navy Yard as a sheet metal worker, did a tour in the Navy — and then walked into the New York Post in 1960 to start working as a night-shift reporter, the start of what became a legendary career.
