Used. Hardcover. If you like your media history with a bit of a bite, John F. Burnett’s *Uncivilized Beasts and Shameless Hellions* delivers a delightfully unfiltered look at the bold broadcasters who ruled the radio waves. This biographical dive explores the fascinating lives of early radio journalists who traded polite chatter for captivating chaos, proving that the golden age of audio had a wonderfully tarnished edge. Burnett charts their wild trajectories through the golden age of broadcast without ever sanitizing their rough-around-the-edges reality. It is a sharp, witty biography that captures just how brilliantly unruly the pioneers of public chatter really were.