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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 ...more |
Hugh Downs |
9 Mar 2012 |
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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 ...more |
Ray Schumack |
18 Mar 2013 |
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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 ...more |
Nellie Bly |
3 Oct 2011 |
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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 ...more |
Nellie Bly |
3 Oct 2011 |
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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. ...more |
Louis E. Rosen |
16 Dec 2011 |
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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 ...more |
Dan Bessie |
28 Mar 2012 |
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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 |
Marlin Fitzwater |
23 Aug 2011 |
$5.95 |
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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 ...more |
Samuel Enadeghe Umweni |
24 Feb 2010 |
$6.00 |
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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 |
Dominic Carter |
25 Feb 2010 |
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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 ...more |
George Morrison |
14 Feb 2012 |
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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, ...more |
Aleko E. Lilius |
14 Feb 2012 |
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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 ...more |
Bryan Woolley |
7 Aug 2010 |
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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 ...more |
Barry Farber |
7 May 2012 |
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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 |
W. E. Gutman |
23 Aug 2012 |
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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 ...more |
Rheta Grimsley Johnson |
6 Aug 2010 |
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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 ...more |
Rheta Grimsley Johnson |
30 Aug 2010 |
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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 ...more |
Clyde Bolton |
23 Sep 2010 |
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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 ...more |
Lewis Grizzard |
18 Nov 2010 |
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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 ...more |
Georgie Anne Geyer |
12 Aug 2011 |
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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 ...more |
Carolyn Sayler |
4 Dec 2011 |
$9.99 |
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