The Last City Room depicts the decline of an influential newspaper in San Francisco during the turbulent early 60s. As the conservatism of the old guard, led by the Herald's increasingly bitter publisher, clashes with the radical campus leaders ascending to power in the city, Colfax quickly realizes that the golden days of the Herald are long over. With his past threatening to ensnare him between the two warring factions, Colfax's struggle quickly becomes one of not simply proving himself as a journalist, but of maintaining his independence and integrity as a man.

The Last City Room is a provocative evocation of a time when the carefully woven social fabric of the country was just beginning to show signs of fraying. It is a tribute to the end of a newspaper and the beginning of a new electronic age. Not since Charles MacArthur wrote The Front Page has there been a more definitive look into the fading traditions and inherent madness of a passing era in American newspapers.