Editors, Journalists, Publishers

Apologies 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...

Known 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 (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...

From 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...

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

Apologies 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 *...

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Apologies 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 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)...

Apologies 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

Afghanistan 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...

The 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,...

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.Book InformationISBN 9780425168059Author John SwainFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams)...

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...

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 9780914090304Author Michael G. LeeFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Chicago Review PressPublisher Chicago Review Press

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

You'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...

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 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...

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...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307276612Author Seymour M. HershFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 507gDimensions(mm) 233mm *...

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...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820324807Author Janice Williams RutherfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint University of Georgia PressPublisher University of Georgia...