Editors, Journalists, Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375759352Author Tom BrokawFormat PaperbackPage Count 233Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 202g

This is a book on the life and times of Robert Chambers, founder of W. & R. Chambers publishers. Although there are now books based on some of his letters and on the impact of one of his books, The Vestiges of Natural Creation, there are no books on the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925835151Author Iola MathewsFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Monash University PublishingPublisher Monash University PublishingWeight(grams) 400g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982169640Author Peter MansbridgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & Schuster

A groundbreaking new look at American novelist Willa Cather's creative process What would Willa Cather's widely read and cherished novels have looked like if she had never met magazine editor and copywriter Edith Lewis? In this groundbreaking book...

Exploring the Blackwell Collections (publishing and bookselling archives), Rita Ricketts discovered diverse characters associated with this world-famous company, between 1830 and 1940. There is a tailor's son saving souls, a reluctant radical, a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771622547Author Reg SherrenFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Douglas & McIntyrePublisher Douglas & McIntyre

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780786888764Author J R MoehringerFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint HyperionPublisher HyperionWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 132mm * 33mm

In this book, Martin Tolchin describes his journey from New York Times copy boy to White House correspondent, and as founder of The Hill and co-founder of Politico. He tells of the talented and eccentric colleagues he encountered en route, and the...

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 Butler Center for Arkansas StudiesPublisher Butler Center for Arkansas...

From highflying Playboy editor to pathetic, homeless alcoholic, this account charts an Icarian fall from grace. It's the sobering tell-all tale of a young, successful, hubristic, hard-drinking journalist who, in his meltdown, becomes the scourge of pubs...

"Here is the real thing - good old-fashioned American values coming from small-town Alaska." -The Boston Globe The Alaskan landscape-so vast, dramatic, and unbelievable-may be the reason the people in Haines, Alaska (population 2,400), so often discuss...

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 304Imprint SignalPublisher McClelland & Stewart Inc.Weight(grams) 152g

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 9781639550470Author Emilie BuchwaldFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Milkweed EditionsPublisher Milkweed EditionsWeight(grams) 152g

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...

Most civil rights victories are achieved behind the scenes, and this riveting, beautifully written memoir by a "black first" looks back with searing insight on the decades of struggle, friendship, courage, humor and savvy that secured what seems...

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 9780143120056Author David RohdeFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Penguin Books IndiaPublisher Penguin Books India Pvt LtdWeight(grams) 363g

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)...

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)...

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...

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) 340g

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 the summer of 2000 a young Irish journalist returned from New York to launch a magazine about life in boomtown Dublin. The Dubliner was an instant failure, and within a few months it was close to bankruptcy. For the next seven years Trevor White...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789360450373Author Mazhar Farooqui,Format PaperbackPage Count 316Imprint Westland Publications LimitedPublisher Westland Publications Limited

Brought to you by Penguin.I was standing outside an apartment block that had been split apart by a missile. The words of a poem came to me when I could no longer find my own.In nearly four decades as a journalist covering conflict from Rwanda to Kosovo...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063420076Author Anon9780063420052Imprint HarperAudioPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

'A superb account of journalists, soldiers and the experience of modern battle, written by one of the greatest war reporters of our time' – Robert Harris, author of An Officer and a Spy‘Gripping and compulsively readable’ – Saul David, Sunday...