Editors, Journalists, Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375724558Author Janine di GiovanniFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 244gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Lukas Prize Project (Nonfiction) 2001.Book InformationISBN 9780618154463Author Professor of History David NasawFormat PaperbackPage Count 736Imprint Mariner...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060959715Author James ThurberFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 258gDimensions(mm)...

Claiming to come from Afghanistan, Ikbal and Idries Shah convinced spies, poets, orientalists, diplomats, occultists, hippies and even a prime minister that they held the keys to understanding the Muslim world. Gambling with the currency of cultural...

The life and work of Ryszard Kapu?ci?ski was dangerously bold and deeply enigmatic. This controversial biography opens up the secrets and contradictions of this globally renowned Polish journalist and writer.Artur Domos?awski travels the globe, following...

W.H. Auden famously wrote: "Poetry makes nothing happen." Journalism is a different matter. In a brilliant study that is, in part, a memoir of his 40 years as an essayist and critic at TIME magazine, Lance Morrow returns to the Age of Typewriters and to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780358697145Author Eric GarciaFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 135g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789982241175Author Mike DakaFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint Gadsden PublishersPublisher Gadsden PublishersWeight(grams) 336g

Bob Pisani is Senior Markets Correspondent for CNBC and has spent the past 25 years on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. He has been on the front line of finance for all the major events of the last quarter century, including the Asian...

Critically acclaimed writer and award-winning foreign correspondent, Anthony Loyd is also an ex-heroin addict. Another Bloody Love Letter exposes the thrilling and brutal reality of life as a war journalist - from the climax of war in Kosovo and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802141927Author Peter GodwinFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Black CatPublisher Black Cat

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Oregon Book Awards (Nonfiction) 2003.Book InformationISBN 9780870715464Author Barbara S. MahoneyFormat HardbackPage Count 277Imprint Oregon State...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400032686Author Rick BraggFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 261gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Nevada's preeminent living writer reveals the ideas and creative process behind his published work. Renowned Nevada writer Robert Laxalt has embraced a wide range of subjects in his nearly half-century career. In this candid, beautifully written memoir,...

NPR SPRING PICKAn insightful exploration that unveils the lesser-known dimensions of this legendary writer and her legacy, revealing the cultural icon's profound impact as a visionary editor who helped define an important period in American publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788433964397Author Jordi GraciaFormat PaperbackPage Count 696Imprint AnagramaPublisher AnagramaWeight(grams) 771gDimensions(mm) 218mm * 137mm * 33mm

Long before Branch Rickey signed Jackie Robinson to a Brooklyn Dodger contract in 1945, Lester Rodney, the newly hired and first sports editor of the "Communist Daily Worker", launched the campaign that proved decisive in eventually breaking baseball's...

The story of eight years in the brief life of Journal Kyaw U Chit Maung, a courageous Burmese journalist and editor. His political analyses helped guide the nation during a turbulent era marked by internal struggles to establish a democracy independent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143107880Author George HodgmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 233g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316499064Author Sophie HeawoodFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Little Brown and CompanyPublisher Little Brown and CompanyWeight(grams)...

'This is a funny and beautiful book. What a little bastard.' RUSSELL BRAND 'A millennial's answer to David Sedaris. No writer is funnier than Joel Golby.' DOLLY ALDERTON A...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781844017133Author Reg ShayFormat PaperbackPage Count 436Imprint New Generation PublishingPublisher New Generation PublishingWeight(grams)...

'An extraordinary story of grace, forgiveness and moral courage' Patrick Radden Keefe A 2024 HIGHLIGHT IN THE OBSERVER, GUARDIAN AND IRISH TIMES AN IMMEDIATE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER The English language has no specific word for the parent that has...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788433907998Author Carlo FeltrinelliFormat PaperbackPage Count 616Imprint AnagramaPublisher AnagramaWeight(grams) 617gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 137mm * 33mm

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 in retirement he witnessed the Tiananmen Square massacre firsthand. Davis and Trani's...

While sportswriters rushed into Major League Baseball locker rooms to talk with players, MLB Commissioner Bowie Kuhn barred the lone woman from entering along with them. That reporter, 26-year-old Sports Illustrated reporter Melissa Ludtke, charged Kuhn...

Starting where the first volume leaves off, we see the author enter his teenage years and the adventures of journalism. The book takes us from the end of 1947 to about 1961 and the building of the wall between East and West Germany.World War II is over...

An evocative, candid reveal of the media and design worlds by an award-winning journalist and activist urban planner in search of the soul of cities and himself.From the stoops of Brooklyn and the streets of East Harlem to the newsrooms of New York and...

An evocative, candid reveal of the media and design worlds by an award-winning journalist and activist urban planner in search of the soul of cities and himself.From the stoops of Brooklyn and the streets of East Harlem to the newsrooms of New York and...

During World War II, Robert St. John of NBC, broadcast from London opposite CBS's Edward R. Murrow. Afterward, St. John would become a noted writer and commentator on world affairs, as well as a prominent and vocal supporter of the state of Israel. In...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815725404Author Stephen HessFormat PaperbackPage Count 242Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & Littlefield

During the 1800s, the United States progressed at a remarkable rate. Commerce gave rise to regional specialization and contributed to the growth of cities. By 1860 the nation had prospered to the extent that it no longer depended on Europe to purchase...

During the 1800s, the United States progressed at a remarkable rate. Commerce gave rise to regional specialization and contributed to the growth of cities. By 1860 the nation had prospered to the extent that it no longer depended on Europe to purchase...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578325804Author Buz TeacherFormat HardbackPage Count 576Imprint Two TreesPublisher Two TreesWeight(grams) 3901g

Daisy Bacon, the opinionated, autocratic and complex editor of Love Story Magazine from 1928 to 1947, chose the stories that would be read by hundreds of thousands of readers each week. The first weekly periodical devoted to romance fiction and the...

Through numerous short stories, novels such as Free Land, and political writings such as 'Credo,' Rose Wilder Lane forged a literary career that would be eclipsed by the shadow of her mother, Laura Ingalls Wilder, whose Little House books Lane edited...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063048843Author Zain E AsherFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 168gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798987960509Author Ann Weimer MoxleyFormat HardbackPage Count 266Imprint University of Florida College of Journalism and CommunicationsPublisher University...

George Bronson Rea, Propagandist brings to life the extraordinary story of a journalist, publisher, engineer, spy, lobbyist, blackmailer and fortune hunter, who represents twentieth century journalism gone awry. Rea's career as a foreign correspondent...

With a polished walking stick and neatly pressed trousers, Richard Halliburton served as an intrepid globetrotting guide for millions of Americans in the 1920s and '30s. Readers waited with bated breath for each new article and book he wrote. During his...