Jim Tully: American Writer, Irish Rover, Hollywood Brawler - Paperbackby Paul J. Bauer (Author), Mark Dawidziak (Author), Ken Burns (Foreword by) Many saw the dark side of the American dream, but none wrote about it like Jim Tully. Having spent six years of his childhood in a Cincinnati orphanage, Tully returned to his hometown of St. Marys, Ohio before climbing aboard a freight train in 1901. Drifting across the country as a "road kid," he spent his teens, sleeping in hobo jungles, avoiding railroad cops, and haunting