Editors, Journalists, Publishers

In Come the Revolution, journalist Alex Mitchell gives a rollicking account of life in newspapers and his radical past as a Trotskyist. From the cut-throat era of Sydney tabloids, he graduated to Fleet Street as an investigative reporter, taking part in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312354114Author Mary MapesFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint St. Martins Press-3PLPublisher St. Martins Press-3PLWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781619025455Author Lorna GibbFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint CounterpointPublisher CounterpointWeight(grams) 459gDimensions(mm) 221mm * 145mm * 23mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250276575Author Lorissa RinehartFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 646gDimensions(mm) 242mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Pulitzer Prize (Biography).Book InformationISBN 9780451168382Author Russell BakerFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Penguin Books LtdPublisher Penguin Books...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345467928Author Terry AndersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm)...

"All that kid wants to do is stick his nose in a book," Michael Dirda's steelworker father used to complain, worried about his son's passion for reading. In An Open Book, one of the most delightful memoirs to emerge in years, the acclaimed literary...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999388914Author Lorraine H TongFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Lht ProductionsPublisher Lht ProductionsWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683964179Author Bill SchellyFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint FantagraphicsPublisher Fantagraphics

Hunter S. Thompson detonated a two-ton bomb under the staid field of journalism with his magazine pieces and revelatory Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. In Outlaw Journalist, the famous inventor of Gonzo journalism is portrayed as never before. Through...

Arthur Mee (1875-1943), best remembered as the creator of The Children's Encyclopaedia, was more than a popular editor, journalist and travel writer; for a generation of young readers and their parents, the name Arthur Mee truly meant something. For many...

When black journalist Vincent "Roi" Ottley was assigned to cover the European theater in World War II, he provided a perspective shared by few other war correspondents. But what he really saw has taken more than sixty years to come to light. Already...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812980561Author Jeff HimmelmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780471477532Author Bob EdwardsFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint John Wiley & Sons IncPublisher Turner Publishing Company

On The Frontlines of the Television War is the story of Yasutsune "Tony" Hirashiki's ten years in Vietnam-beginning when he arrived in 1966 as a young freelancer with a 16mm camera but without a job or the slightest grasp of English and ending in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805076967Author Caroline MooreheadFormat PaperbackPage Count 465Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 590gDimensions(mm)...

This Element throws new light on James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson by investigating its early publication history. Despite precarious psychological and financial circumstances and other limitations, Boswell was both author and publisher of the...

As seen on Fox and Friends From the front lines in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, and other conflict zones to the base of the burning Twin Towers on 9/11 to the eye of countless hurricanes, Rick Leventhal chronicles some of the most amazing stories he's...

Intimate. Revealing. Candid. Published by the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, Conversations with Cronkite gives readers a rare glimpse into the life and times of Walter Cronkite in his own words. The book contains selections from interviews...

In this crackling memoir, the journalist and novelist Michael Idov recounts the tempestuous years he spent living alongside - and closely observing - the media and cultural elite of Putin's Russia. After accepting a surprise offer to become the editor in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Pulitzer Prize (Biography).Book InformationISBN 9780452255500Author Russell BakerFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Penguin Random House AustraliaPublisher...

A classic of world literature back in print in a Spanish-language edition.Wisconsin edition is for sale only in North America.About the AuthorJacobo Timerman (1923-1999) was born in the Ukraine, moved with his family to Argentina in 1928, and was...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of New Mexico Book Awards (Biography) 2010 and New Mexico Book Awards (Best of) 2010.Book InformationISBN 9780060798703Author James McGrath MorrisFormat...

Edmund Curll was a notorious figure among the publishers of the early eighteenth century: for his boldness, his lack of scruple, his publication of work without author's consent, and his taste for erotic and scandalous publications. He was in legal...

INSTANT #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER Peter Mansbridge invites us to walk the beat with him in this entertaining and revealing look into his life and career, from his early broadcasting days in the remote northern Manitoba community of Churchill to the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743284769Author James TobinFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 367gDimensions(mm) 214mm * 140mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439141144Author Edna BuchananFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Pocket BooksPublisher Pocket BooksWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 132mm * 28mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780071499118Author Christopher RobbinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 398Imprint McGraw-Hill EducationPublisher McGraw-Hill EducationWeight(grams) 431g

For many Americans, Peter Jennings was the voice and face that gave shape and meaning to every day's news. In this oral biography, readers witness Jennings' extraordinary rise to the top of his profession, but they get to know him as a person, too. It...

Pulitzer Prize winning reporter Lewis M. Simons's recollects his 50 years as a foreign correspondent, one whose powerful stories contributed to transforming Asia from Vietnam War-era basket case to a global boomtown that today rivals the United States. ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375758232Author Adam GopnikFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 268g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648118381Author Thalif DeenFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Grigson Consulting Pty LtdPublisher Grigson Consulting Pty LtdWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781598533088Author H. L. MenckenFormat HardbackPage Count 750Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of AmericaWeight(grams) 735gDimensions(mm)...

This is a follow-on volume to the author's highly successful "Baghdad, Yesterday" (Ibis Editions, Jerusalem, 2007), which told of Sasson Somekh's boyhood in the city of his birth and the circumstances under which his family decided to forsake Iraq, a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956368638Author Geoffrey GoodmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 274Imprint Revel BarkerPublisher Revel BarkerWeight(grams) 371gDimensions(mm) 152mm * 229mm *...

Bernard Fall wrote the classics Street Without Joy and Hell in a Very Small Place, which detailed the French experience in Vietnam. One of the first (and the best-informed) Western observers to say that the United States could not win there either, he...

A harrowing and unforgettable look at reporting in Mexico, one of the world's most dangerous countries to be a journalist In 2017, Mexico edged out Iraq and Syria as the deadliest country in the world in which to be a reporter, with at least...

In his long-overdue first collection of essays, noted journalist and NPR commentator Andrew Lam explores his lifelong struggle for identity as a Viet Kieu, or a Vietnamese national living abroad. At age eleven, Lam, the son of a South Vietnamese general,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250781369Author Lisa RogakFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher St. Martin's GriffinWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 226mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062896391Author Benjamin MoserFormat HardbackPage Count 832Imprint Ecco PressPublisher Ecco PressWeight(grams) 1134g