Other editions of book Psmith, Journalist

The story begins with Psmith accompanying his fellow Cambridge student Mike to New York on a cricketing tour. Through high spirits and force of personality, Psmith takes charge of a minor periodical, and becomes imbroiled in a scandal involving slum landlords, boxers and gangsters - the story displays a strong social conscience, rare in Wodehouse's generally light-hearted works.

Psmith, Journalist finds two of Wodehouse's favorite early characters, Psmith and Mike, find themselves in New York City, it isn't long before those quintessential Englishmen are involved in the mysteries of American gang warfare. An extraordinary combination of comedy, adventure story and unusual in Wodehouse social commentary. There is even a boxing match graphically described. As such, it is unique among his novels in content, but characteristic in wit and entertainment value.

Reconvene with Psmith as he takes on the Big Apple as no one else can, managing a newspaper, battling with gangs, and confronting slum lords. While his friend Mike Jackson tours the U.S.A. playing cricket for Cambridge, Psmith befriends Billy Windsor, the sub-editor of the homely paper, Cosy Moments. Appalled by the political corruption and poverty of New York, Psmith and Billy turn Cosy Moments into a voice as “the guardians of the People’s rights.” The gangs and various beneficiaries of the crooked system are not thrilled about this journalistic development. But Psmith is not daunted. The cry goes round, “Cosy Moments cannot be muzzled!” In Psmith, Journalist, Wodehouse shows that comedy is an avenue toward wisdom, and that humor is a tool to aid us in digging deep down to the heart of the matter and knowing the truth of it.

The story begins with Psmith accompanying his fellow Cambridge student Mike to New York on a cricketing tour. Through high spirits and force of personality, Psmith takes charge of a minor periodical, and becomes imbroiled in a scandal involving slum landlords, boxers and gangsters - the story displays a strong social conscience, rare in Wodehouse's generally light-harted works.

The story begins with Psmith accompanying his fellow Cambridge student Mike to New York on a cricketing tour. Through high spirits and force of personality, Psmith takes charge of a minor periodical, and becomes imbroiled in a scandal involving slum landlords, boxers and gangsters - the story displays a strong social conscience, rare in Wodehouse's generally light-harted works.

"The man in the street would not have known it, but a great crisis was imminent in New York journalism. "Everything seemed much as usual in the city. The cars ran blithely on Broadway. Newsboys shouted 'Wux-try' into the ears of nervous pedestrians with their usual Caruso-like vim. Society passed up and down Fifth Avenue in its automobiles, and was there a furrow of anxiety upon Society's brow? None. At a thousand street corners a thousand policemen preserved their air of massive superiority to the things of this world. Not one of them showed the least sign of perturbation. Nevertheless, the crisis was at hand." The irrepressible Psmith is accompanying his fellow Cambridge student Mike to New York on a cricketing tour. Through high spirits and force of personality - well, you know how Psmith is - Psmith takes charge of a minor periodical, and becomes embroiled in a scandal involving slum landlords, boxers and gangsters! It's a roaring Wodehouse tale, replete with colorful characters, clever wordplay, and the sorts of retorts you wish you had at your command. And, rare for Wodehouse, a strong social conscience!