Editors, Journalists, Publishers

A towering figure on the American cultural landscape, H.L. Mencken stands out as one of our most influential stylists and fearless iconoclasts--the twentieth century's greatest newspaper journalist, a famous wit, and a constant figure of controversy. ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945624247Author Ernest DumasFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Central Arkansas Library SystemPublisher Central Arkansas Library SystemWeight(grams)...

The remarkable true story of the rise and fall of one of North America's most influential yet unknown publisher and aspirational politician. When George McCullagh bought The Globe and The Mail and Empire and merged them into the Globe and Mail, today...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684873169Author Hunter S ThompsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 784Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 771gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780771000201Author John HonderichFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint SignalPublisher McClelland & Stewart Inc.

The formative years of Milkweed Editions - a story told by its cofounder. In the 1970s and '80s, as major New York publishing houses were consolidating and growing ever larger, small nonprofit presses and journals emerged. With a variety of missions,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781989555606Author Eric RegulyFormat HardbackPage Count 140Imprint The Sutherland House Inc.Publisher The Sutherland House Inc.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853038405Author Gerry BlackFormat HardbackPage Count 237Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdWeight(grams)...

Again available in paperback is Eric Sevareid's widely acclaimed Not So Wild a Dream. In this brilliant first-person account of a young journalist's experience during World War II, Sevareid records both the events of the war and the development of...

In the fall of 1943, armed with only his notebooks and pencils, Time and Life correspondent Robert L. Sherrod leapt from the safety of a landing craft and waded through neck-deep water and a hail of bullets to reach the shores of the Tarawa Atoll with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781558616974Author Florence HoweFormat PaperbackPage Count 536Imprint Feminist Press at The City University of New YorkPublisher Feminist Press at The City...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of ALA Best Books for Young Adults. Short-listed for Pulitzer Prize.Book InformationISBN 9780375725784Author Dave EggersFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Random...

This book reveals how Al Jazeera and its news coverage became a force for change politically, socially and culturally in the Middle East in general, and the Arab world in particular.It explores pre-Al Jazeera and post-Al Jazeera representations of...

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316018715Author Peter GodwinFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Little, Brown & CompanyPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams)...

A stunning portrait of the complicated woman who becomes Ernest Hemingway's fourth wife, tracing her adventures before she meets Ernest, exploring the tumultuous years of their marriage, and evoking her merry widowhood as she shapes Hemingway's literary...

Seeing is an award-winning journalist's searing and candid memoir about epidemics, pollution, and domestic violence in contemporary China. Through an intimate narrative, and told with an immediate and gripping voice, Chai Jing describes her life...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143109815Author John NorrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815731610Author Marvin KalbFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 667gDimensions(mm) 236mm...

His keen grasp of human nature and a unique style of verse made Ogden Nash, in the mid-twentieth century, the most widely read and frequently quoted poet of his time. For years, readers have longed for a biography to match Nash's charm, wit, and good...

In 1952 the New Yorker published a three-part essay by A. J. Liebling in which he dubbed Chicago the "Second City." From garbage collection to the skyline, nothing escaped Liebling's withering gaze. Among the outraged responses from Chicago residents was...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807061480Author Garry LeechFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 326gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 14mm

Jacques Schiffrin changed the face of publishing in the twentieth century. As the founder of Les Editions de la Pleiade in Paris and cofounder of Pantheon Books in New York, he helped define a lasting canon of Western literature while also promoting new...

Marguerite 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,...

In Through Her Eyes Australian women correspondents tell their own stories from the frontline - covering the breaking news, the issues and the events that are changing the world. They tell of Russian tanks and Ukrainian mothers fleeing with their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250191250Author Tina BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 155mm * 20mm

Hailed everywhere as a brilliant biography, GONZO is a startling portrait of Hunter S. Thompson, the genius who spent a lifetime channeling his energy and insight into such landmark works as Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas--and revolutionized the art of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorTerence Smith is an award-winning journalist who has been a political reporter, foreign correspondent, editor and television analyst over the course of an almost...

In 1993 Liz Tilberis had it all. Having risen to the editorship of British Vogue, she had been hired as editor-in-chief of Harper's Bazaar, the Bible of US fashion. Moving to America with her husband and two small children she presided over the dazzling...

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Stuart Heritage got where he is today by being decent, thoughtful, hardworking and kind. He is, in short, a model citizen. The favourite son. His younger brother Pete is quick-tempered, peevish and aggressively pig-headed and, for a while, known to his...

Michael Buerk occupies a unique position in British public life. From The Choice to The Moral Maze he combines the serious with the popular. Famous as a newscaster on the nightly news, he made his name in the toughest of journalistic environments and few...

The life of John Junor, Fleet Street legend, is explored in movingly honest detail in this work by his daughter, the journalist and broadcaster Penny Junor. John Junor was a brilliant newspaperman. As editor of "The Sunday Express" for 32 years he...

Father and son: arguably the most complex of all family relationships. But what happens when your dad is a manic-depressive who paints the front door in the middle of the night and sends good-wishes to Michael Crawford scrawled on a pair of underpants?...

Despite many wanting him to fail, Piers Morgan took over from US TV legend Larry King at CNN in 2010 and went on to cover some of the most shocking news events in recent US history, such as the killing of Osama bin Laden, the devastation caused by...

Having joined the BBC as a trainee in 1984, Jeremy Bowen first became a foreign correspondent four years later. He had witnessed violence already, both at home and abroad, but it wasn't until he covered his first war -- in El Salvador -- that he felt he...

`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 collection of full-throated appreciations, withering assessments, and hard-won...

A witty, stylish and indispensable guide to being a modern man. It is tough being a man in the twenty-first century. First there are the big dilemmas, like how to get a pay rise and how to suck up to your boss. Then there are the minor irritations: how...

** BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK ** ** A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR ** **Marie Colvin is the subject of a major biopic starring Rosamund Pike** 'A stunningly good biography' WILLIAM BOYD Marie Colvin was glamorous, hard-drinking, braver than the boys,...

The sizzling diaries of Tina Brown's eight spectacular years as editor in chief of Vanity Fair paint a riveting portrait of the flash, dash and follies of the Eighties in New York and Hollywood. 'A fabulous odyssey ... I read it in a mad frenzy' Stephen...