Just Call Me Jim: A Great and Good Man Still Remembered

by Charles M. Province, Walter S.J. Swanson, Jack Murphy

Just Call Me Jim is, quite simply, a tribute to the life and career of James S. Copley who was born on August 12, 1916, in St. Johnsville, New York. Both of his Jim's birth parents (Lodwell) died during the Influenza epidemic of 1917-18. From then on, Jim's life took on all the drama and turmoil of a Charles Dickens' novel. He was adopted at the age of two, brought up by Colonel Ira C. Copley, an Illinois congressman, and he eventually became the sole owner of one of the world's largest family owned newspaper empires. Jim Copley was a very private person who assiduously protected his privacy. This book, however, helps to display his personality as a publisher and newspaperman through the writings of some of his friends and close associates at Copley Press and the Copley Newspaper Group. This volume is an adjunct publication to Mr. Province's book A Long Way From Flat River; My Years With the San Diego Union-Tribune. which contains additional information concerning Jim Copley and his newspaper saga.

Hardcover

Published April 18, 2022