Editors, Journalists, Publishers

In this eclectic and delightful mix of memoir, biography, and history, veteran journalist and broadcaster Eric Beardsley gives a candid account of his life. This narrative chronicles the reporter's experiences from his childhood in 1920s and 1930s...

This first comprehensive biography of Jewish American writer and humorist Harry Golden (1903-1981)--author of the 1958 national bestseller Only in America--illuminates a remarkable life intertwined with the rise of the civil rights movement, Jewish...

John Reed was one of America's most dynamic journalists during the World War I decade. An unabashed advocate for the working class and an outspoken critic of capitalism, Reed was a star reporter before his relentless crusade turned him into a target of...

By the early 1920s, ""ladies magazines"" (fujin zasshi) had become a distinct category in Japanese publishing. Women's periodicals increasingly influenced intellectual discourse, the literary establishment, and daily life...

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...

By the early 1920s, ""ladies magazines"" (fujin zasshi) had become a distinct category in Japanese publishing. Women's periodicals increasingly influenced intellectual discourse, the literary establishment, and daily life. Turning...

Louis Austin (1898-1971) came of age at the nadir of the Jim Crow era and became a transformative leader of the long black freedom struggle in North Carolina. From 1927 to 1971, he published and edited the Carolina Times, the preeminent black newspaper...

Raised in a one-room log cabin in a small North Texas town, Amon G. Carter (1879–1955) rose to become the founder and publisher of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, a seat of power from which he relentlessly promoted the city of Fort Worth, amassed a...

In Ben Robertson: South Carolina Journalist and Author, Jodie Peeler tells the story of a man consumed with a need to see the world but whose heart never really left home. Drawing heavily on Robertson's writings and personal papers, Peeler describes his...

After spending his childhood in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia and witnessing the Communist takeover of his country in 1948, a young journalist named Milan Kubic embarked on a career as a Newsweek correspondent that spanned thirty-one years and three...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865347700Author Carolyn SaylerFormat HardbackPage Count 302Imprint Sunstone PressPublisher Sunstone PressWeight(grams) 599g

"This is not a simple life, my friend, and there are no simple answers."The late editor of the late Miami News, Bill Baggs, stamped these words on plain white postcards and sent them to readers who sent him hate mail—a frequent occurrence, as Baggs, a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595278466Author Edward L BeardshearFormat PaperbackPage Count 620Imprint iUniversePublisher iUniverseWeight(grams) 898g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312543396Author Peter RaderFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 535gDimensions(mm) 242mm *...

Vance Packard's bestselling books--Hidden Persuaders (1957), Status Seekers (1959), and Waste Makers (1960)--taught the generation that came of age in the late 1950s and early 1960s about the dangers posed by advertising, social climbing, and planned...

Political and literary journalist Austin Harrison became editor of the ""English Review"" in 1910. While holding that chair, he expanded the publication's literary scope by publishing articles on such issues as woman suffrage,...

This is the first complete biography of Fred McFerrin Russell, one of the all-time stars in sports journalism. This biography details how the Vanderbilt man started with the Nashville Banner in the late 1920s, ascended to Sports Editor and remained with...

Charles K. McClatchy was twenty-five when he inherited The Sacramento Bee from his father, and his ensuing career as the paper's editor extended well beyond the newsroom. Until his death in 1936, McClatchy was a consistent advocate for Progressive...

The widely known Pulitzer name is considered by many to be synonymous with the Pulitzer Prizes and the St Louis ""Post-Dispatch"". Joseph Pulitzer III (1913-1993) was editor and publisher of the ""Post-Dispatch"",...

For nearly twenty years Robert H. Phelps ran interference for, cheered on, and sometimes scolded star reporters and top editors at the ""New York Times"". Starting his career as a cub reporter for the ""Providence...

Originally published in 1981 and long out of print, A Farewell to Heroes covers five unforgettable decades of the New York sporting life from 1915 to 1965. Told initially from the point of view of Frank Graham, premier sportswriter for The New York Sun...

Sentenced to death as a Fascist spy by Republican forces in war-torn Spain, decorated for saving an airman's life in a bullet-ridden B-24 Liberator over Greece, war correspondent Henry 'Hank' Gorrell often found himself in the thick of the fighting he...

Peyton Anderson, Jr. was greatly influenced by his family. A child of privilege in Macon, Georgia, he was the son and nephew of the men who owned and ran the town's two newspapers. After attending the Naval Academy, he returned home and went to work in...

A cautionary tale of one of New Zealand's most popular radio broadcasters, this narrative tells the life story of Reverend Colin Scrimgeor, whose successful radio show brought comfort and hope to thousands of people during the Great Depression but was...

In January 1998, while the rest of her newsroom is chasing the Monica Lewinsky story, television journalist Jennifer Cohen gets a lead that takes her out of covering that scandal and deep into another one the trafficking of sex slaves from the former...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781087381688Author SimpsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 122g

For five weeks the world waited for news about Danny Pearl, the Wall Street Journal reporter who was kidnapped in Karachi, Pakistan....And then came the broadcast of his shocking murder. The complete account of his abduction, the intense effort to rescue...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999035924Author Andrew YoungFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Associated PressPublisher Associated PressWeight(grams) 281g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780425194331Author Bob SchiefferFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 476g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637582060Author Patti Ann BrowneFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Post Hill PressPublisher Post Hill PressWeight(grams) 140g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781896357805Author Boyce RichardsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Between the LinesPublisher Between the Lines

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781075454486Author Shyloh Heaven JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 145g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781335999146Author Scott PelleyFormat HardbackPage Count 464Imprint Hanover Square PressPublisher Hanover Square PressWeight(grams) 644gDimensions(mm) 235mm...

A two-volume book in which Maurice Rajsfus, a French activist and former investigative journalist for Le Monde, shares his research and personal recollections in order to shed new light on France's role in the Holocaust. In the first volume,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781080603398Author Petro YednakFormat PaperbackPage Count 70Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 152g

Del Hall stands as one of the few journalists able to chart their careers through the milestones and icons of the late twentieth century -- the civil rights movement, Vatican II, the Beatles' arrival in the United States, Martin Luther King, Jr., John F...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595147144Author Alfred L FrisbieFormat PaperbackPage Count 652Imprint Writers Club PressPublisher Writers Club PressWeight(grams) 943g