Editors, Journalists, Publishers

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...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781610170864Author Daniel KellyFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint ISI BooksPublisher ISI Books

A. J. A. Symons was, as Simon C. W. Hewett puts it, "a bibliophile, bibliographer, bookdealer, calligrapher, serial club founder, gourmet, author, biographer, and expert on Baron Corvo, Oscar Wilde, and Victorian musical boxes." He is perhaps best...

A muckraking newspaperman who was once nationally known as a historian of the West, Owen Payne White (1879-1946) brought local history to center stage, intrigued readers nationally with tales of the Old West, and spotlighted corruption in high and low...

A classic memoir retold to reveal a long kept secret. When Ben Duncan chronicled his evolution from a Depression-era orphan in Alabama to an Oxford educated writer and commentator in England in 1962, he was unable to tell his whole story. He revealed...

William Shirer (1904-1993), a star foreign correspondent with the Chicago Tribune in the 1920s and '30s, was a prominent member of what one contemporary observer described as an extraordinary band of American journalists, "some with the Midwest hayseed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767928830Author Bill O'ReillyFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc)Publisher...

Duncan Macpherson (1924-1993) was one of the greatest of Canadian cartoonists. He began his career as an illustrator for the Montreal Standard and Weekend Magazine, then joined the ranks of Maclean's and finally the Toronto Star. He won six National...

Street-smart, wickedly funny, piercingly perceptive, and eloquent enough to win a Pulitzer Prize, Mike Royko continues to have legions of devoted fans who still wonder 'what Royko would have said' about some outrageous piece of news. One thing he hardly...

In this memoir, replete with Jewish humor and sardonic Russian irony, exiled Russian journalist and human rights advocate Arkady Polishchuk (b. 1930) colorfully narrates his evolution as a dissenter and his work on behalf of persecuted Christians in...

Oregon entered a new era in 1964 with the election of Tom McCall as Secretary of State and Bob Straub as State Treasurer. Their political rivalry formed the backdrop for two of Oregon's most transformative decades, as they successively fought for, lost,...

A long-overdue book on the brilliant life and career of one of our greatest public intellectuals, American Prophet will introduce Carey McWilliams to a new generation of readers.Peter Richardson's absorbing and elegantly paced book reveals a figure...

This is the classic story of the life and times of I. F. "Izzy" Stone. Robert Cottrell weaves together material from interviews, letters, archival materials, and government documents, and Stone's own writings to tell the tale of one of the most...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935191452Author David B. FriskFormat HardbackPage Count 592Imprint ISI BooksPublisher ISI Books

In an age of big box stores and media conglomerates, how can an independent publishing house survive-and even thrive? Kim Bancroft takes us into Heyday, a small press that for forty years has spotlighted California's best stories. Drawing from the words...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807600160Author George BrazillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint George Braziller IncPublisher George Braziller IncWeight(grams) 411g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807600054Author Allison GruberFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint George BrazillerPublisher George BrazillerWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 208mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780826212818Author Robert J. DonovanFormat HardbackPage Count 184Imprint University of Missouri PressPublisher University of Missouri PressWeight(grams)...

Labor Day, 1969. Two recent college graduates move to New York to edit a new magazine called The National Lampoon. Over the next decade, Henry Beard and Doug Kenney, along with a loose amalgamation of fellow satirists including Michael O'Donoghue and P...