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Chasing Hope: A Reporter's Life by Nicholas D. Kristof 9780593862797
RRP: $43.86Booksplease Price: $26.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593862797Author Nicholas D. KristofFormat PaperbackPage Count 768Imprint Random House Large PrintPublisher Diversified PublishingWeight(grams)... -
An Open Book: Chapters fom a Reader's Life by Michael Dirda 9780393326147
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $21.39"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... -
Hitler on Trial: Alan Cranston, Mein Kampf, and the Court of World Opinion by Lorraine H Tong 9780999388914
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $9.87Apologies 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 *... -
James Warren: Empire Of Monsters: The Man Behind Creepy, Vampirella, and Famous Monsters by Bill Schelly
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $23.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683964179Author Bill SchellyFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint FantagraphicsPublisher Fantagraphics -
Fierce Ambition: The Life and Legend of War Correspondent Maggie Higgins by Jennet Conant 9780393882124
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $28.52Marguerite Higgins was both the scourge and envy of the journalistic world. A longtime reporter for the New York Herald Tribune, she first catapulted to fame with her dramatic account of the liberation of Dachau at the end of World War II. Brash,... -
Outlaw Journalist: The Life and Times of Hunter S. Thompson by William McKeen 9780393335453
RRP: $30.96Booksplease Price: $26.38Hunter 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... -
Ghost Light: A Memoir by Frank Rich 9780375758249
RRP: $27.09Booksplease Price: $19.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age.Book InformationISBN 9780375758249Author Frank RichFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Random House Trade... -
Conversations with Gordon Lish by David Winters 9781496818164
RRP: $33.53Booksplease Price: $33.23Known as ""Captain Fiction,"" Gordon Lish (b. 1934) is among the most influential--and controversial--figures in modern American letters. As an editor at Esquire (1969-1977), Alfred A. Knopf (1977-1995), and The Quarterly (1987-1995)... -
Arthur Mee: A Biography by Keith Crawford 9780718894351
RRP: $30.32Booksplease Price: $29.77Arthur 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... -
Roi Ottley's World War II: The Lost Diary of an African American Journalist by Mark A. Huddle 9780700617692
RRP: $54.12Booksplease Price: $41.46When 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... -
Cast of Characters: Wolcott Gibbs, E. B. White, James Thurber, and the Golden Age of The New Yorker by Thomas Vinciguerra 9780393353532
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $16.31From its birth in 1925 to the early days of the Cold War, The New Yorker slowly but surely took hold as the country's most prestigious, entertaining, and informative general-interest periodical. In Cast of Characters, Thomas Vinciguerra paints a portrait... -
Yours In Truth: A Personal Portrait of Ben Bradlee, Legendary Editor of The Washington Post by Jeff Himmelman
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $14.82Apologies 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)... -
Edward R. Murrow and the Birth of Broadcast Journalism by Bob Edwards 9780471477532
Booksplease Price: $21.94Apologies 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 -
Audition: A Memoir by Barbara Walters 9780307279965
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $17.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307279965Author Barbara WaltersFormat PaperbackPage Count 672Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 601gDimensions(mm) 201mm *... -
Journals and Letters of Stephen Mackenna by Stephen MacKenna 9781597313186
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Funny Business: The Legendary Life and Political Satire of Art Buchwald by Michael Hill
RRP: $29.67Booksplease Price: $21.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593229514Author Michael HillFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc -
On the Frontlines of the Television War: A Legendary War Cameraman in Vietnam by Yasutsune Hirashiki 9781612004723
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $27.77On 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... -
Gellhorn: A Twentieth-Century Life by Caroline Moorehead 9780805076967
RRP: $33.54Booksplease Price: $21.05Apologies 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)... -
Return to Solitude: More Desolation Sound Adventures with the Cougar Lady, Russell the Hermit, the Spaghetti Bandit and Others by Grant Lawrence
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781550179712Author Grant LawrenceFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Harbour PublishingPublisher Harbour PublishingDimensions(mm) 228mm * 152mm * 16mm -
The Valediction: Three Nights of Desmond by Paul Fitzgerald
RRP: $27.08Booksplease Price: $16.81Afghanistan was an American crusade to win the war against the "Evil Soviet Empire" and remake the world in its own image.This goes right to the heart of understanding the destiny of the Western Dream. Instead of a dream the US is caught in a nightmare... -
Diamonds and Deadlines: A Tale of Greed, Deceit, and a Female Tycoon in the Gilded Age by Betsy Prioleau
RRP: $28.37Booksplease Price: $23.57The first biography of the glamorous and scandalous Miriam Leslie-a titan of publishing and an unsung hero of women's suffrage-connecting Gilded Age opulence with present-day social justiceAmong the fabled tycoons of the Gilded Age-Carnegie, Rockefeller,... -
Dressed Up for a Riot: Misadventures in Putin's Moscow by Michael Idov
Booksplease Price: $15.49In 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... -
River of Time: A Memoir of Vietnam and Cambodia by Professor John Swain 9780425168059
RRP: $30.96Booksplease Price: $21.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780425168059Author John SwainFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams)... -
Growing Up by Russell Baker 9780452255500
RRP: $30.96Booksplease Price: $20.98Apologies 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... -
Preso Sin Nombre, Celda Sin Numero by Jacobo Timerman 9780299200442
RRP: $21.87Booksplease Price: $17.74A 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... -
Pulitzer: A Life in Politics, Print, and Power by James McGrath Morris 9780060798703
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $18.77Apologies 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... -
Ernie Pyle's War: America's Eyewitness to World War II by James Tobin 9780743284769
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $15.83Apologies 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... -
When the Band Played On: The Life of Randy Shilts, America's Trailblazing Gay Journalist Michael G. Lee 9780914090304
RRP: $34.77Booksplease Price: $25.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780914090304Author Michael G. LeeFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Chicago Review PressPublisher Chicago Review Press -
The Corpse Had a Familiar Face by Edna Buchanan
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $23.07Apologies 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 -
Tabloid Love by Bridget Harrison 9780552153713 [USED COPY]
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $2.75You're about to turn thirty, all your friends are getting engaged and pregnant - and your body-clock is ticking. Then you get an offer to move to New York. So you take a chance and break up with your boyfriend - only to land yourself in the singles... -
Courage Beyond Words: Holocaust Witness, Nazi Hunter, Language Teacher to the Stars: The Many Lives and Languages of Miche by Christopher Robbins 9780071499118
RRP: $39.99Booksplease Price: $27.98Apologies 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 -
Peter Jennings: A Reporter's Life by Kate Darnton 9781586486440
Booksplease Price: $28.79For 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... -
To Tell the Truth: A Foreign Correspondent's Fifty-Year Pursuit by Lewis M. Simons
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $35.35Pulitzer 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. ... -
Paris to the Moon by Adam Gopnik
RRP: $23.22Booksplease Price: $14.10Apologies 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 -
H. L. Mencken: The Days Trilogy, Expanded Edition (LOA #257): Happy Days / Newspaper Days / Heathen Days / Days Revisited: Unpublished Commentary by H. L. Mencken
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $29.08Apologies 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)... -
Life After Baghdad: Memoirs of an Arab-Jew in Israel, 1950-2000 by Sasson Somekh
RRP: $28.37Booksplease Price: $26.94This 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... -
From Bevan to Blair: Fifty Years Reporting from the Political Front Line by Geoffrey Goodman 9780956368638
Booksplease Price: $13.67Apologies 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: Memories of a Soldier-Scholar by Dorothy Fall
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $18.67Bernard 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... -
Untitled by To Be Confirmed S&s Canada 9781982169602
RRP: $38.69Booksplease Price: $23.01INSTANT #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... -
Edmund Curll, Bookseller by Paul Baines 9780199278985
RRP: $123.84Booksplease Price: $104.97Edmund 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...