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    Hunting the Famous by William John Stapleton    Then We Were One: Fragments of Two Lives by Fred A. Reed    Rose Boys: Text Classics by Peter Rose    To Be Or Not To Be... by Norman L. Wolfson    Lovers and Husbands and What-not :A Biography of Margaret L. Macpherson by Reynold Macpherson    Intimacy With Strangers: A Life of Brief Encounters by Ciaran Carty    Harvest in the Snow by Ellen Blackman    Forbes Watson: Independent Revolutionary by Lenore S. Clark    Am I Sane Yet? An Insider's Look at Mental Illness by John Scully    Warrior Pose: How Yoga (Literally) Saved My Life by Brad Willis & Bhava Ram    News Dispatches from the Korean War: A U.S. Army Combat Correspondent Writes for Stars and Stripes About the 3rd Division by Ray Schumack    Black Sun: The Brief Transit and Violent Eclipse of Harry Crosby by Geoffrey Wolff    Betty Friedan and the Making of "The Feminine Mystique": The American Left, the Cold War, and Modern Feminism by Daniel Horowitz    The Smile on the Face of the Pig: Confessions of the Last Cub Reporter by John Bull    In Love with Defeat: The Making of a Southern Liberal by H. Brandt Ayers    Shocking the Conscience: A Reporter's Account of the Civil Rights Movement by Simeon Booker & Carol McCabe Booker    Unhitched: The Trial of Christopher Hitchens by Richard Seymour    Scoop: The Evolution of a Southern Reporter by Jack Nelson    House of Horrors: The Shocking True Story of Anthony Sowell, the Cleveland Strangler by Robert Sberna    Ripperology: A Study of the World's First Serial Killer and a Literary Phenomenon by Robin Odell    Tupelo Man: The Life and Times of George McLean, a Most Peculiar Newspaper Publisher by Robert Blade    The Reporter Who Knew Too Much: Harrison Salisbury and the New York Times by Donald E. Davis & Eugene P. Trani    Born to Lose: Stanley B. Hoss and the Crime Spree That Gripped a Nation by James G. Hollock    The Imperial Messenger: Thomas Friedman at Work by Belén| Fernández    Ryszard Kapuscinski: A Life by Artur Domoslawski    Cupcakes and Kalashnikovs: 100 years of the best Journalism by Women by Eleanor Mills    A Paler Shade of Red: Memoirs of a Radical by W. E. Gutman    As Always, Julia: The Letters of Julia Child and Avis DeVoto by Joan Reardon    Four Seasons with a Grumpy Goat: How I Learnt to Stop Worrying and Love Life on the Farm by Carol Altmann    House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East by Anthony Shadid    Before the Rain: A Memoir of Love and Revolution by Luisita Lopez Torregrosa    Confessions of a Mullah Warrior by Masood Farivar    To Prussia with Love: Misadventures in Rural East Germany by Roger Boyes    Doomed by Cartoon by John Adler & Draper Hill    City Son: Andrew W. Cooper's Impact on Modern-Day Brooklyn by Wayne Dawkins    City Son: Andrew W. Cooper's Impact on Modern-Day Brooklyn by Wayne Dawkins    Transparent by Don Lemon    Confessions of a Guilty Freelancer by William O'Rourke    The Place to Be by Roger Mudd    Can You Believe It? 30 Years of Insider Stories with the Boston Red Sox by Joe Castiglione & Douglas B. B. Lyons    Ballgame! A Decade Covering the Texas Rangers from the Best Seat in the House by Josh Lewin    Advocacy Journalists by Edd Applegate    Cocktails with Molotov by Barry Farber    The Godfather of Tabloid by Jack Vitek    Take Good Care of the Garden and the Dogs: Family, Friendships, and Faith in Small-Town Alaska by Heather Lende    Jubilee Hitchhiker by William Hjortsberg    The Talking Cure by Mike Feder    First Loves by Ted Solotaroff    The Death of Ben Linder by Joan Kruckewitt    A Talk in the Park by Curt Smith
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Hunting the Famous by William John Stapleton
Hunting the Famous

Hunting the Famous is a meditation on journalism and writing by veteran news reporter William John Stapleton. Spanning the decades from the late 1969 to 2009, the book covers everything from the writer and journalist's early years, saddled with a compulsion
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Then We Were One: Fragments of Two Lives by Fred A. Reed
Then We Were One: Fragments of Two Lives

This literary translator brings us a finely wrought autobiography that arcs from southern California through Iran, Syria, Lebanon and Canada.
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Fred A. Reed 14 Jun 2013  $19.95 


Rose Boys: Text Classics by Peter Rose
Rose Boys: Text Classics

What exactly is the message of Robert Rose? One year after his death, twenty-six years after just another of our crashes, knowing the effect it had on his family and friends, and thousands of others who hardly knew him, I want to go back there, I want

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Peter Rose 14 Jun 2013  $12.95 


To Be Or Not To Be... by Norman L. Wolfson
To Be Or Not To Be...

This book depicts a person's life, which is very normal until the eleventh year. At that time the revelation of a family's darkest secret sets the course for some very trying and painful experiences - and, indeed, may be the cause of totally destructive
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Norman L. Wolfson 11 Jun 2013  $6.00 


Lovers and Husbands and What-not :A Biography of Margaret L. Macpherson by Reynold Macpherson
Lovers and Husbands and What-not :A Biography of Margaret L. Macpherson

Synopsis:

Who is this woman?

She was born in Leeds, U.K., died in Kaitaia, New Zealand, and appears in both the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography and the Bibliography of Australian Literature...

She was raised a Quaker, converted to and campaigned







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Reynold Macpherson 1 Jun 2013  $9.99 


Intimacy With Strangers: A Life of Brief Encounters by Ciaran Carty
Intimacy With Strangers: A Life of Brief Encounters

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Ciaran Carty 13 May 2013  $17.49 


Harvest in the Snow by Ellen Blackman
Harvest in the Snow

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Forbes Watson: Independent Revolutionary by Lenore S. Clark
Forbes Watson: Independent Revolutionary

Forbes Watson, art commentator for the New York Evening Post and New York World quickly gained a reputation as an outspoken ally of progressive American artists and a caustic annihilator of those who got in their way. This charming, confrontational connoisseur,
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Am I Sane Yet? An Insider's Look at Mental Illness by John Scully
Am I Sane Yet? An Insider's Look at Mental Illness

Award-winning journalist John Scully has been committed to mental institutions seven times. He has been locked up. He has attempted suicide. Am I Sane Yet? is essential reading for anyone interested in depression and mental illness. John Scully is getting
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Warrior Pose: How Yoga (Literally) Saved My Life by Brad Willis & Bhava Ram
Warrior Pose: How Yoga (Literally) Saved My Life

From the front lines of the Gulf War to investigating Columbian drug lords to living with freedom fighters in the mountains of Afghanistan, war correspondent Brad Willis was accustomed to risk. But when mortal danger came, it was from an unexpected direction.

At

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Brad Willis &
Bhava Ram
14 Apr 2013  $14.95 


News Dispatches from the Korean War: A U.S. Army Combat Correspondent Writes for Stars and Stripes About the 3rd Division by Ray Schumack
News Dispatches from the Korean War: A U.S. Army Combat Correspondent Writes for Stars and Stripes About the 3rd Division

Stories about war and great battles have described heroism in combat while others described destruction, suffering, death and dismemberment of young men's bodies. Less has been written about the human condition - the need for companionship and trust, the
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Ray Schumack 18 Mar 2013  $3.99 


Black Sun: The Brief Transit and Violent Eclipse of Harry Crosby by Geoffrey Wolff
Black Sun: The Brief Transit and Violent Eclipse of Harry Crosby

Includes an afterword by the author.

Harry Crosby was the godson of J. P. Morgan and a friend of Ernest Hemingway. Living in Paris in the twenties and directing the Black Sun Press, which published James Joyce among others, Crosby was at the center of

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Geoffrey Wolff 9 Feb 2013  $19.95 


Betty Friedan and the Making of "The Feminine Mystique": The American Left, the Cold War, and Modern Feminism by Daniel Horowitz
Betty Friedan and the Making of "The Feminine Mystique": The American Left, the Cold War, and Modern Feminism

An examination of the social and political climate that influenced Betty Friedan and culminated in her landmark book, The Feminine Mystique. This digital edition was derived from ACLS Humanities E-Book's (http://www.humanitiesebook.org) online version
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Daniel Horowitz 6 Feb 2013  $9.99 


The Smile on the Face of the Pig: Confessions of the Last Cub Reporter by John Bull
The Smile on the Face of the Pig: Confessions of the Last Cub Reporter

1950s Britain - when life was great if you had the guts to live it. Murder, lurid courtroom dramas, gypsy horse fairs, eccentric admirals, child brides, and falling in love - it's all in a day's work for cub reporter John Bull. Meet a cast of characters
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In Love with Defeat: The Making of a Southern Liberal by H. Brandt Ayers
In Love with Defeat: The Making of a Southern Liberal

Journalist and publisher Brandt Ayers's journey takes him from the segregated Old South to covering the central scenes of the civil rights struggle, and finally to editorship of his family's hometown newspaper, The Anniston Star. The journey was one of
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H. Brandt Ayers 10 Jan 2013  $9.99 


Shocking the Conscience: A Reporter's Account of the Civil Rights Movement by Simeon Booker & Carol McCabe Booker
Shocking the Conscience: A Reporter's Account of the Civil Rights Movement

Within a few years of its first issue in 1951, Jet, a pocket-size magazine, became the "bible" for news of the civil rights movement. It was said, only half-jokingly, "If it wasn't in Jet, it didn't happen." Writing for the magazine and its glossy,

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Simeon Booker &
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Unhitched: The Trial of Christopher Hitchens by Richard Seymour
Unhitched: The Trial of Christopher Hitchens

Blistering and timely interrogation of the politics and motives of an infamous ex-leftist.

Irascible and forthright, Christopher Hitchens stood out as a man determined to do just that. In his younger years, a career-minded socialist, he emerged from

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Richard Seymour 5 Dec 2012  $16.95 


Scoop: The Evolution of a Southern Reporter by Jack Nelson
Scoop: The Evolution of a Southern Reporter

From a gullible cub reporter with the Daily Herald in Biloxi and Gulfport, to the pugnacious Pulitzer Prize winner at the Atlanta Constitution, to the peerless beat reporter for the Los Angeles Times covering civil rights in the South, Jack Nelson

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House of Horrors: The Shocking True Story of Anthony Sowell, the Cleveland Strangler by Robert Sberna
House of Horrors: The Shocking True Story of Anthony Sowell, the Cleveland Strangler

To his neighbors on Imperial Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio, Anthony Sowell was a quiet and helpful former Marine who played chess and hosted summer barbeques in his front yard. But there was a dark side to Sowell-and a horrific secret inside his house. In
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Ripperology: A Study of the World's First Serial Killer and a Literary Phenomenon by Robin Odell
Ripperology: A Study of the World's First Serial Killer and a Literary Phenomenon

Ripperology sometimes obsessive interest in studying the crimes of Jack the Ripper?is a subject of timeless interest that has suffered from confusion, exaggeration, and hyperbole for over a century. Jack the Ripper was probably the first serial killer
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Tupelo Man: The Life and Times of George McLean, a Most Peculiar Newspaper Publisher by Robert Blade
Tupelo Man: The Life and Times of George McLean, a Most Peculiar Newspaper Publisher

In 1924, George McLean, an Ole Miss sophomore and the spoiled son of a judge, attended a YMCA student mission conference whose free-thinking organizers aimed to change the world. They changed George McLean's.

But not instantly. As vividly recounted in

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The Reporter Who Knew Too Much: Harrison Salisbury and the New York Times by Donald E. Davis & Eugene P. Trani
The Reporter Who Knew Too Much: Harrison Salisbury and the New York Times

During his career at The New York Times, Harrison Salisbury served as the bureau chief in post-World War II Moscow, reported from Hanoi during the Vietnam War and witnessed the Tiananmen Square massacre firsthand. Davis and Trani's engaging
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Donald E. Davis &
Eugene P. Trani
12 Oct 2012  $44.99 


Born to Lose: Stanley B. Hoss and the Crime Spree That Gripped a Nation by James G. Hollock
Born to Lose: Stanley B. Hoss and the Crime Spree That Gripped a Nation

A small-time hoodlum who became the most hunted man in America. Stanley Barton Hoss was a burglar, thief, and local thug from the Pittsburgh area. In eight short months in 1969, however, he became a rapist, prison escapee, murderer, and kidnapper; the
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James G. Hollock 15 Sep 2012  $16.99  more than one
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The Imperial Messenger: Thomas Friedman at Work by Belén| Fernández
The Imperial Messenger: Thomas Friedman at Work

Debunking the bluster of New York Times columnist and capitalist apologist Thomas Friedman, as part of Verso's new "Counterblasts" series.

Factual errors, ham-fisted analysis, and contradictory assertions-compounded by a penchant for mixed metaphors
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Belén| Fernández 10 Sep 2012  $16.95 


Ryszard Kapuscinski: A Life by Artur Domoslawski
Ryszard Kapuscinski: A Life

Definitive biography of one of the most significant journalists of the twentieth century.

Reporting from such varied locations as postcolonial Africa, revolutionary Iran, the military dictatorships of Latin America and Soviet Russia, the Polish journalist

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Artur Domoslawski 9 Sep 2012  $34.95 


Cupcakes and Kalashnikovs: 100 years of the best Journalism by Women by Eleanor Mills
Cupcakes and Kalashnikovs: 100 years of the best Journalism by Women

Many female journalists came to the fore during the first and second world wars, and their perspective was very different to that of their male peers, who were reporting from the field. Specifically, they often wrote about war from the perspective of

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Eleanor Mills 29 Aug 2012  $13.11 


A Paler Shade of Red: Memoirs of a Radical by W. E. Gutman
A Paler Shade of Red: Memoirs of a Radical

An epic work of remarkable scope, vigor and passion, W. E. Gutman's latest book is acerbic, iconoclastic and disquieting. In this memoir, he chronicles his life with eloquent, engaging prose that will resonate with readers long after they turn the last

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W. E. Gutman 23 Aug 2012  $9.95 


As Always, Julia: The Letters of Julia Child and Avis DeVoto by Joan Reardon
As Always, Julia: The Letters of Julia Child and Avis DeVoto

This dishy and delightful, never-before-published correspondence between America's queen of food, Julia Child, and her confidante and mentor Avis DeVoto, shows not only the blossoming of a lifelong friendship, but also an America on the verge of political,
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Joan Reardon 15 Aug 2012  $15.95 


Four Seasons with a Grumpy Goat: How I Learnt to Stop Worrying and Love Life on the Farm by Carol Altmann
Four Seasons with a Grumpy Goat: How I Learnt to Stop Worrying and Love Life on the Farm

A tree change is about finding a simpler life, right? And that's what Carol Altmann and her partner were seeking when they moved to a hobby farm in Tasmania. But things go wrong in a surprising number of ways as they try to adapt to life on the farm surrounded
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Carol Altmann 13 Aug 2012  $27.26 


House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East by Anthony Shadid
House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East

A compelling saga of redemption and renewal from two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Anthony Shadid tells the story of rebuilding his family's ancestral home in Lebanon amid political strife, and his eventual understanding of the emotions behind the turbulence

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Anthony Shadid 12 Aug 2012  $15.95 


Before the Rain: A Memoir of Love and Revolution by Luisita Lopez Torregrosa
Before the Rain: A Memoir of Love and Revolution

A seductive memoir of a life-changing affair during a time of revolution as it unfolds over a decade and across three continents, surprising both lovers with the power and urgency of love.

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Luisita Lopez Torregrosa 11 Aug 2012  $25.00 


Confessions of a Mullah Warrior by Masood Farivar
Confessions of a Mullah Warrior

Masood Farivar was ten years old when his childhood in peaceful and prosperous Afghanistan was shattered by the Soviet invasion of 1979. Although he was born into a long line of religious and political leaders who had shaped his nation's history for centuries,
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Masood Farivar 10 Aug 2012  $15.00 


To Prussia with Love: Misadventures in Rural East Germany by Roger Boyes
To Prussia with Love: Misadventures in Rural East Germany

Farce meets romance in this amusing travel memoir set in East Germany In a desperate attempt to save his relationship with girlfriend Lena and take a break from the world of journalism, Roger Boyes agrees to make a great escape from the easy urban lifestyle
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Roger Boyes 28 Jul 2012  $9.99 


Doomed by Cartoon by John Adler & Draper Hill
Doomed by Cartoon

The legendary Boss Tweed effectively controlled New York City from after the Civil War until his downfall in November 1871. A huge man, he and his Ring of Thieves appeared to be invincible as they stole an estimated $2 billion in today's dollars. In addition
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John Adler &
Draper Hill
26 Jul 2012  $9.99  more than one
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City Son: Andrew W. Cooper's Impact on Modern-Day Brooklyn by Wayne Dawkins
City Son: Andrew W. Cooper's Impact on Modern-Day Brooklyn

In 1966, a year after the Voting Rights Act began liberating millions of southern blacks, New Yorkers challenged a political system that weakened their voting power. Andrew W. Cooper (1927-2002), a beer company employee, sued state officials in a case

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Wayne Dawkins 25 Jun 2012  $35.00 


City Son: Andrew W. Cooper's Impact on Modern-Day Brooklyn by Wayne Dawkins
City Son: Andrew W. Cooper's Impact on Modern-Day Brooklyn

In 1966, a year after the Voting Rights Act began liberating millions of southern blacks, New Yorkers challenged a political system that weakened their voting power. Andrew W. Cooper (1927-2002), a beer company employee, sued state officials in a case

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Wayne Dawkins 18 Jun 2012  $35.00 


Transparent by Don Lemon
Transparent

In this unique memoir, Primetime CNN anchor Don Lemon takes readers behind the scenes of journalism, detailing his own struggle to become one of the most prominent African American men in television news-and inside some of the biggest stories of our times.

Never

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Don Lemon 16 Jun 2012  $24.95 


Confessions of a Guilty Freelancer by William O'Rourke
Confessions of a Guilty Freelancer

William O'Rourke's singular view of American life over the past 40 years shines forth in these short essays on subjects personal, political, and literary, which reveal a man of keen intellect and wide-ranging interests. They embrace everything from the
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William O'Rourke 8 Jun 2012  $24.99 


The Place to Be by Roger Mudd
The Place to Be

Roger Mudd joined CBS in 1961, and as the congressional correspondent, became a star covering the historic Senate filibuster debate over the 1964 Civil Right Act. Mudd was one of half a dozen major figures in the stable of CBS News broadcasters at time
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Roger Mudd 24 May 2012  $15.95 


Can You Believe It? 30 Years of Insider Stories with the Boston Red Sox by Joe Castiglione & Douglas B. B. Lyons
Can You Believe It? 30 Years of Insider Stories with the Boston Red Sox

Joe Castiglione is one of a few select announcers whose voice harkens fans back to the home field of their favorite team. After 30 years, his commentary has become as much a part of Boston Red Sox lore as the Green Monster, the Pesky Pole, and Yawkey Way.
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Joe Castiglione &
Douglas B. B. Lyons
18 May 2012  $24.99 


Ballgame! A Decade Covering the Texas Rangers from the Best Seat in the House by Josh Lewin
Ballgame! A Decade Covering the Texas Rangers from the Best Seat in the House

Taking baseball fans behind the microphone, into locker rooms, and through the most memorable season in Texas Rangers history, this firsthand account from announcer Josh Lewin is both insightful and entertaining. Recounting the Rangers' struggles during
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Josh Lewin 18 May 2012  $24.99 


Advocacy Journalists by Edd Applegate
Advocacy Journalists

In all likelihood advocacy journalism is the oldest form of reportage. It appears frequently whenever journalists desire to advocate their beliefs or ideas about major political or social problems. In Advocacy Journalists: A Biographical Dictionary ofWriters
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Edd Applegate 9 May 2012  $59.99 


Cocktails with Molotov by Barry Farber
Cocktails with Molotov

After reading Cocktails with Molotov, you'll wonder if there's anything Barry Farber hasn't done, if there's anywhere he hasn't been. From a young age, Farber had a knack for being in the right place at the right time. In Cocktails with Molotov, Barry

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Barry Farber 7 May 2012  $9.95  more than one
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The Godfather of Tabloid by Jack Vitek
The Godfather of Tabloid

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Take Good Care of the Garden and the Dogs: Family, Friendships, and Faith in Small-Town Alaska by Heather Lende
Take Good Care of the Garden and the Dogs: Family, Friendships, and Faith in Small-Town Alaska

Well-known radio personality Bodett records his unique and warmly humorous view of life. 2 cassettes. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Heather Lende 16 Apr 2012  $22.95 


Jubilee Hitchhiker by William Hjortsberg
Jubilee Hitchhiker

Confident and robust, Jubilee Hitchhiker is an comprehensive biography of late novelist and poet Richard Brautigan, author of Troutfishing in America and A Confederate General from Big Sur, among many others. When Brautigan took his own life in September
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William Hjortsberg 10 Apr 2012  $29.95 


The Talking Cure by Mike Feder
The Talking Cure

As a kid growing up in Queens, Mike Feder identified with Scheherazade of The Thousand and One Nights: "The idea of someone having to tell a new tale every night to prevent their head getting chopped off seemed sadly familiar to me."
Back then, the author's
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Mike Feder 6 Apr 2012  $26.95 


First Loves by Ted Solotaroff
First Loves

Solotaroff was one of the notable intellectuals of his generation, the founder of the New American Review, editor and friend of Philip Roth, and editor-in-chief at HarperCollins. Solotaroff reveals himself here as a thinking man with a big heart and gaping
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Ted Solotaroff 6 Apr 2012  $14.95 


The Death of Ben Linder by Joan Kruckewitt
The Death of Ben Linder

In 1987, the death of Ben Linder, the first American killed by President Reagan's "freedom fighters" -- the U.S.-backed Nicaraguan Contras -- ignited a firestorm of protest and debate. In this landmark first biography of Linder, investigative journalist
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Joan Kruckewitt 3 Apr 2012  $16.95 


A Talk in the Park by Curt Smith
A Talk in the Park

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Rare Birds: An American Family by Dan Bessie
Rare Birds: An American Family

What does a writer do when he's got a family that includes a blacklisted member of the Hollywood Ten, the brains behind Tony the Tiger and the Marlboro Man, a trio of gay puppeteers, the world's leading birdwatcher, 1960s hippies, a Dutch stowaway who
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Dan Bessie 28 Mar 2012  $4.99  more than one
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An Accidental Novelist by Richard S. Wheeler
An Accidental Novelist

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Richard S. Wheeler 20 Mar 2012  $9.99 


Yours Truly, Hugh Downs by Hugh Downs
Yours Truly, Hugh Downs

Hugh Downs, legendary broadcaster at 20/20 and The Tonight Show, describes how an endlessly creative childhood lead to his career as a radioman and broadcaster. Topics examined include: his father's wayward attempt to automate their entire family home
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I Sailed with Chinese Pirates by Aleko E. Lilius
I Sailed with Chinese Pirates

An enthusiastic history of rampant Cantonese piracy in the 1930s, this first-hand account follows globetrotting journalist Aleko E. Lilius as he sets out to infiltrate mysterious pirate gangs. Describing every detail of the reporter's life as he eats,
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Aleko E. Lilius 14 Feb 2012  $7.99 


An Australian in China by George Morrison
An Australian in China

Describing a journey across China to Burma, this vivid and precise account follows Australian-born foreign correspondent George Morrison on his travels beginning in 1894. Dressed in Chinese garb and engaging guides and servants as needed, Morrison traveled
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George Morrison 14 Feb 2012  $7.99 


Beside the Rio Hondo by Phaedra Greenwood
Beside the Rio Hondo

How can a lone female of "a certain age" take her last stand on a stony wedge of land in the mountains of Northern New Mexico? Will she find a job, learn to chop wood, be eaten by a bear or give it up and fall in love again? "Beside the Rio Hondo" is a
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Phaedra Greenwood 1 Feb 2012  $9.99 


Frank Marshall Davis: The Fire and the Phoenix (A Critical Biography) by Kathryn Waddell Takara
Frank Marshall Davis: The Fire and the Phoenix (A Critical Biography)

Frank Marshall Davis: The Fire and the Phoenix (A Critical Biography) is a compelling historical biography about Frank Marshall Davis (1907-1987), journalist, editor, poet, labor activist, and Renaissance man of the Black Chicago Renaissance. He wrote
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Kathryn Waddell Takara 31 Jan 2012  $19.95 


Henry Gaylord Wilshire by Louis E. Rosen
Henry Gaylord Wilshire

Henry Gaylord Wilshire was one of the most fascinating men of his time. He developed a 35 acre barley field that would become one of the most famous streets in the world. He ran for Congress three times and for Parliament in both Great Britain and Canada.
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Louis E. Rosen 16 Dec 2011  $4.98 


Stories My Father Told Me by Jeffrey Lyons
Stories My Father Told Me

This amazing collection of choice anecdotes takes us right back to the Golden Age of New York City nightlife, when top restaurants like Toots Shor's, "21," and Sardi's, as well as glittering nightclubs like the Stork Club, Latin Quarter, and El Morocco,
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Jeffrey Lyons 10 Dec 2011  $35.00 


Doris Fleeson by Carolyn Sayler
Doris Fleeson

"She was my idol," said columnist Mary McGrory. McGrory, in writing of women, referred to Doris Fleeson as "incomparably the first political journalist of her time." Fleeson was, in fact, the first woman in the United States to become a nationally syndicated
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Carolyn Sayler 4 Dec 2011  $9.99 


When Tish Happens: The Unlikely Story of Canada's "Most Influential Literary Magazine" by Frank Davey
When Tish Happens: The Unlikely Story of Canada's "Most Influential Literary Magazine"

Chronicling the birth of Tish, the University of British Columbia's poetry newsletter, this history describes the ideologies and devotion of its contributing poets and editors and the publication that followed. The evolution of this artistic venture, which
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A Life in Motion by Florence Howe
A Life in Motion

Founder of the Feminist Press tells her life story as an activist, scholar, and publisher.
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Florence Howe 21 Nov 2011  $24.95 


Yesterday Morning by Diana Athill
Yesterday Morning

A remarkable, truthful and vivid recollection of childhood, from the author of Stet, After a Funeral, Don't Look at Me Like That and Instead of a Letter. Here Athill goes back to the beginning in a sharp evocation of a childhood unfashionably filled with
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Diana Athill 1 Nov 2011  $12.51 


Ten Days in a Mad-House by Nellie Bly
Ten Days in a Mad-House

This is the true story of reporter Nellie Bly, who pretends to be insane, and manages to get herself committed into an insane asylum in the USA. This revised second digital edition is a fascinating account, specially formatted for today's e-readers by
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Nellie Bly 3 Oct 2011  $4.49 


Ten Days in a Mad-House by Nellie Bly
Ten Days in a Mad-House

This is the true story of reporter Nellie Bly, who pretends to be insane, and manages to get herself committed into an insane asylum in the USA. This revised second digital edition is a fascinating account, specially formatted for today's e-readers by
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Nellie Bly 3 Oct 2011  $4.49 


Uncovering Race by Amy Alexander
Uncovering Race

From an award-winning black journalist, a tough-minded look at the treatment of ethnic minorities both in newsrooms and in the reporting that comes out of them, within the changing media landscape.

From the Rodney King riots to the racial inequities of

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Amy Alexander 2 Oct 2011  $28.95 


My Life as a Dame by Christina McCall
My Life as a Dame

Considered by many to be the best political writer of her generation, Governor General's Award-winning author and journalist Christina McCall was a pioneer for women in journalism and one of the most brilliant minds of her time. For the first time ever,
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Butterfly Mind by Patrick Brown
Butterfly Mind

In this politically astute and revelatory memoir, Patrick Brown weaves together three stories: the first is his 25-year education as a journalist and his parallel struggle with alcoholism; the second, the momentous situations he's found himself in as a
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A Voice in the Box by Bob Edwards
A Voice in the Box

The host of The Bob Edwards Show and Bob Edwards Weekend on Sirius XM Radio, Bob Edwards became the first radio personality with a large national audience to take his chances in the new field of satellite radio. The programs' mix of long-form interviews
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Sunflowers: A Collection of Short Stories by Marlin Fitzwater
Sunflowers: A Collection of Short Stories

Marlin Fitzwater began writing short stories in College. After ten years in the White Houses of Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, he returned to writing. He has produced a memoir, two novels, a stage play, and this book of seven short stories

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Marlin Fitzwater 23 Aug 2011  $5.95 


Buying the Night Flight by Georgie Anne Geyer
Buying the Night Flight

In Buying the Night Flight Georgie Anne Geyer, one of the first American women to cover wars abroad, tells of her thrilling rise from cub reporter to foreign correspondent as she made her way into the male-dominated world of journalism. Born from thirty
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Breaking News: The Golden Age of Graham Perkin by Ben Hills
Breaking News: The Golden Age of Graham Perkin

An insightful and vigorous biography, this account chronicles the life of Australia's most influential newspaper editor, Graham Perkin, and the history of the newspaper to which he devoted his tremendous talents. A portrait of media power gone too soon,
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The Pamphleteers: The Birth of Journalism by James A. Oliver
The Pamphleteers: The Birth of Journalism

OVERVIEW The Pamphleteers is an investigation into the early journalism. In an era long before the advent of the periodical press, the pamphleteers were the world's proto-journalists. As a paper platform for a spectrum of religious fanatics, eccentrics,
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James A. Oliver 5 Dec 2010  $12.00 


So Greek: Confessions of a Conservative Leftie by Niki Savva
So Greek: Confessions of a Conservative Leftie

Telling the story of Greek émigré Niki Savva, this emotional and humorous memoir provides an in-depth look into the lives of Australia's journalists and politicians. Having survived the challenges of growing up in Melbourne's working-class suburbs as
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They Tore Out My Heart and Stomped That Sucker Flat by Lewis Grizzard
They Tore Out My Heart and Stomped That Sucker Flat

They Tore Out My Heart and Stomped That Sucker Flat, first published in 1982, has sold more than 100,000 copies. Without skipping a beat, one of America's favorite humorists, the late Lewis Grizzard, tells of the early stirrings of his wayward heart in
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Lewis Grizzard 18 Nov 2010  $9.99 


The Deeds of My Fathers: How My Grandfather and Father Built New York and Created the Tabloid World of Today by Paul David Pope & Generoso Sr. Pope & Gene Pope Jr.
The Deeds of My Fathers: How My Grandfather and Father Built New York and Created the Tabloid World of Today

This engrossing saga begins when Generoso Pope, Sr., just 15, flees Italy and his domineering father, sailing to America with only pennies in his pockets. He passes through Ellis Island in 1906 and soon finds work in the sand pits of Long Island, just
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Hadacol Days: A Southern Boyhood by Clyde Bolton
Hadacol Days: A Southern Boyhood

Clyde Bolton has long been a dean of the Southern sportswriting community. Now this popular columnist focuses his beguiling prose on his boyhood memories in his delightful memoir, Hadacol Days. The title is taken from a high school cheer: "Statham Wildcats
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Clyde Bolton 23 Sep 2010  $9.99 


Enchanted Evening Barbie and the Second Coming: A Memoir by Rheta Grimsley Johnson
Enchanted Evening Barbie and the Second Coming: A Memoir

Nationally syndicated columnist Rheta Grimsley Johnson, winner of the Ernie Pyle Award for human interest reporting, turns her sharp eye on herself in this frank, exhilarating, wise, poignant, and brave memoir. Her territory ranges from childhood memories
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Rheta Grimsley Johnson 30 Aug 2010  $9.99 


The Wonderful Room: The Making of a Texas Newspaperman by Bryan Woolley
The Wonderful Room: The Making of a Texas Newspaperman

Following the life of journalist Bryan Woolley, this lively account paints a colorful and accurate picture of newspaper reporting on the Mexican border 50 years ago. From Woolley's initiation at the El Paso Times to his smoking cigars with Andres Segovia
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Poor Man's Provence: Finding Myself in Cajun Louisiana by Rheta Grimsley Johnson
Poor Man's Provence: Finding Myself in Cajun Louisiana

For over a decade, syndicated columnist Rheta Grimsley Johnson has been spending several months a year in Southwest Louisiana, deep in the heart of Cajun Country. Unlike many other writers who have parachuted into the swampy paradise for a few days or
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Rheta Grimsley Johnson 6 Aug 2010  $9.99 


Bet the House: How I Gambled Over a Grand a Day for 30 Days on Sports, Poker, and Games of Chance by Richard Roeper
Bet the House: How I Gambled Over a Grand a Day for 30 Days on Sports, Poker, and Games of Chance

During the course of 30 days in early 2009, Richard Roeper risked more than a quarter million dollars on practically every method of gambling currently available in America. Chronicling his wild ride in a breezy, humorous manner, this entertaining exploration both
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The Uncrowned King: The Sensational Rise of William Randolph Hearst by Kenneth Whyte
The Uncrowned King: The Sensational Rise of William Randolph Hearst

A lively, unexpected, and impeccably researched piece of popular history, The Uncrowned King reveals how an unheralded young newspaperman from San Francisco arrived in New York and created the most successful daily of his time, pushing the medium to an
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Kenneth Whyte 20 Apr 2010  $30.00 


No Momma's Boy by Dominic Carter
No Momma's Boy

Tired of keeping his life-long secrets, author Dominic Carter, described by some as the best of New York's political television reporters, shares his remarkable, gut-wrenching story of abuse at the hands of his mother in No Momma's Boy.

Shortly after

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Dominic Carter 25 Feb 2010  $6.00 


888 Days in Biafra by Samuel Enadeghe Umweni
888 Days in Biafra

No book about the Nigerian civil war has up to date provided as revealing an account of the prison conditions of wartime "Biafra." In this book, Engr. Sam Umweni, then Officer-in-Charge of Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation in Benin, chronicles his abduction
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Samuel Enadeghe Umweni 24 Feb 2010  $6.00 


Molly Ivins by Bill Minutaglio & W. Michael Smith
Molly Ivins

A revelatory biography of the irreverent political commentator and bestselling author whose public persona masked a complicated and compelling personal history
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Peter Mark Roget: The Man Who Became a Book by Nick Rennison
Peter Mark Roget: The Man Who Became a Book

Every day thousands of people worldwide consult Roget's Thesaurus. How many stop to consider why that endlessly useful reference book is so called? Of those who know that it owes its name to the man who first devised it, how many know anything more about
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Nick Rennison 8 Dec 2009  $14.99 


The Year Before the Flood: A Story of New Orleans by Ned Sublette
The Year Before the Flood: A Story of New Orleans

Spending 2004-2005 in New Orleans investigating the city's legendary past both in the archives and its living culture in the street, this account combines personal memoir, historical research, and on-the-ground reporting to trace a suspenseful arc through
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Press Freedom and Pluralism in Europe: Concepts and Conditions by Andrea Czepek
Press Freedom and Pluralism in Europe: Concepts and Conditions

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Andrea Czepek 2 May 2009  $20.00 


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