He steps on stage and draws the sword of rhetoric, and when he is through, someone is lying wounded and thousands of others are either angry or consoled.

Hamill wrote about the New York underclass and racial division most notably in an essay for Esquire magazine entitled Breaking the Silence. Anne Hamill was employed in Wanamaker's department store and also worked as a domestic a nurses' aide and a cashier in the RKO movie chain. In 1998 he publiPete Hamilld an extended essay on contemporary journalism titled News is a Verb: Journalism at the End of the Twentieth Century.

" Hamill was a columnist and editor for the New York Post and The New York Daily News. Pete Hamill (born June 24 1935) is an American journalist novelist essayist editor and educator.