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On Air by Mike Carlton 9780857987815
RRP: $38.64$27.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857987815Author Mike CarltonFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Ebury AustraliaPublisher Random House AustraliaWeight(grams) 760g -
El Paso's Muckraker: The Life of Owen Payne White by Garna L. Christian 9780826355454
RRP: $50.25$41.22A muckraking newspaperman who was once nationally known as a historian of the West, Owen Payne White (1879-1946) brought local history to center stage, intrigued readers nationally with tales of the Old West, and spotlighted corruption in high and low... -
A Voice in the Box: My Life in Radio by Bob Edwards 9780813134505
RRP: $23.22$22.70The host of The Bob Edwards Show and Bob Edwards Weekend on Sirius XM Radio, Bob Edwards became the first radio personality with a large national audience to take his chances in the new field of satellite radio. The programs' mix of long-form... -
A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity: A Memoir by Bill O'Reilly 9780767928830
RRP: $18.05$12.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767928830Author Bill O'ReillyFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc)Publisher... -
Cast of Characters: Wolcott Gibbs, E. B. White, James Thurber, and the Golden Age of The New Yorker by Thomas Vinciguerra 9780393353532
RRP: $19.34$16.99From 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... -
That's Not Funny, That's Sick: The National Lampoon and the Comedy Insurgents Who Captured the Mainstream by Ellin Stein 9780393350241
$16.63Labor Day, 1969. Two recent college graduates move to New York to edit a new magazine called The National Lampoon. Over the next decade, Henry Beard and Doug Kenney, along with a loose amalgamation of fellow satirists including Michael O'Donoghue and P... -
Dispatches from the Pacific: The World War II Reporting of Robert L. Sherrod by Ray E. Boomhower 9780253029607
RRP: $86.43$73.22In 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... -
The Octopus Conspiracy: And Other Vignettes of the Counterculture--From Hippies to High Times to Hip-Hop & Beyond . . . by Steven Hager 9780975290613
RRP: $23.16$19.89From the birth of hip-hop culture in the South Bronx to the influence of nightclubs in shaping the modern art world in New York, a generation of countercultural events and icons are brought to life in this personal account of the life and experiences of... -
Dancing on Thin Ice: Travails of a Russian Dissenter by Arkady Polishchuk 9780998777030
RRP: $28.37$25.26In this memoir, replete with Jewish humor and sardonic Russian irony, exiled Russian journalist and human rights advocate Arkady Polishchuk (b. 1930) colorfully narrates his evolution as a dissenter and his work on behalf of persecuted Christians in... -
Don't Be Afraid of the Bullets: An Accidental War Correspondent in Yemen by Laura Kasinof 9781628726480
RRP: $16.76$15.22Laura Kasinof studied Arabic in college and moved to Yemen a few years later after a friend at a late-night party in Washington, DC, recommended the country as a good place to work as a freelance journalist. When she first moved to the capital city of... -
But You Don't Look Arab: And Other Tales of Unbelonging by Hala Gorani 9780306831645
RRP: $32.25$21.13Emmy Award-winning international journalist Hala Gorani weaves stories from her time as a globe-trotting anchor and correspondent with her own lifelong search for identity as the daughter of Syrian immigrants.What is it like to have no clear identity in... -
The Godfather of Tabloid: Generoso Pope Jr. and the National Enquirer by Jack Vitek 9780813125039
RRP: $34.83$28.19They're impossible to miss at grocery stores and newsstands in America: colorful, heavily illustrated tabloid newspapers with headlines promising shocking, unlikely, and sometimes impossible stories within. Although ubiquitous now, the supermarket... -
I Alone Have Escaped to Tell You: My Life and Pastimes by Ralph McInerny 9780268034924
RRP: $116.10$99.01With ""I Alone Have Escaped to Tell You"", Ralph McInerny - distinguished scholar, mystery writer, editor, publisher, and family man - delivers a thoroughly engaging memoir. In the course of his recollections, McInerny describes his... -
Joseph Pulitzer II and the "Post-Dispatch": A Newspaperman's Life by Daniel W. Pfaff 9780271007489
RRP: $101.85$89.78This biography brings the song of "the" Joseph Pulitzer out from behind his colorful father's shadow and shows him to have been one of American's most important newspapermen, ranking with Adolph Ochs, William Allen White, and Robert R... -
Journalist on Trial by Rodney D Sieh 9781988058399
RRP: $20.63$11.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781988058399Author Rodney D SiehFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Manor House Publishing IncPublisher Manor House Publishing IncWeight(grams) 446g -
David Syme: Man of the Age by Elizabeth Morrison 9781922235572
RRP: $34.82$27.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922235572Author Elizabeth MorrisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 435Imprint Monash University PublishingPublisher Monash University Publishing -
John Mitchel by James Quinn 9781906359157
RRP: $18.06$17.38John Mitchel (1815-75) was born at Camnish, near Dungiven, Co. Derry, the son of a Presbyterian minister. After qualifying as a solicitor, he became a leading contributor to the Nation newspaper and the most militant of the Young Irelanders. Sentenced to... -
Ogden Nash: The Life and Work of America's Laureate of Light Verse by Douglas M. Parker 9781566637299
RRP: $19.34$17.38Candy Is dandy But liquor Is quicker. These inimitable lines could only have been written by Ogden Nash, the American nonpareil of light verse and one of the most remarkable figures in American letters. His keen grasp of human nature and a unique style... -
On Her Trail: My Mother, Nancy Dickerson, TV News' First Woman Star by John Dickerson 9781501130670
RRP: $21.92$14.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501130670Author John DickersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 216mm *... -
I'll Be Home: The Writings of Jim McGrath by Jim McGrath 9781438474229
RRP: $26.32$19.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438474229Author Jim McGrathFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint Excelsior EditionsPublisher State University of New York Press -
The Perilous Trade: Book Publishing in Canada, 1946-2006 by Roy Macskimming 9780771054945
RRP: $29.67$21.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780771054945Author Roy MacskimmingFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint McClelland & Stewart Inc.Publisher McClelland & Stewart Inc.Weight(grams) 578g -
Dogs, Houses, Gardens, Food and Other Addictions by Sondra Gotlief 9781552783702
RRP: $14.18$12.29An enormously entertaining and witty memoir.Book InformationISBN 9781552783702Author Sondra GotliefFormat PaperbackPage Count 348Imprint McArthur & CompanyPublisher McArthur & CompanyWeight(grams) 263g -
Fire in the Straw: Notes on Inventing a Life by Nick Lyons 9781951627195
RRP: $32.24$19.98"I love Nick Lyons's books. Every sentence is so full and ripe." --Ted Hughes, former Poet Laureate to Queen Elizabeth II FIRE IN THE STRAW is the witty and deeply felt memoir of Nick Lyons, a man with an intrepid desire to reinvent himself--which he... -
Speaking Freely: My Life in Publishing and Human Rights by Robert L. Bernstein 9781620971710
RRP: $25.79$25.52What do Dr. Seuss, William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, Andrei Sakharov, and James Michener have in common? They were all published by Bob Bernstein during his twenty-five-year run as president of Random House, before he brought the dissidents Liu Binyan,... -
Newsmaker: Roy W. Howard, the Mastermind Behind the Scripps-Howard News Empire From the Gilded Age to the Atomic Age by Patricia Beard 9781493017539
RRP: $25.79$25.34In the first half of the 20th century, the golden age of newspapers, the colorful, charismatic, and controversial Roy W. Howard reigned as the most famous publisher, editor and journalist of his time. Named one of “The 29 Men Who ‘Rule’ America’” on the... -
Encounters: My Life in Publishing by George Braziller 9780807600160
$18.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807600160Author George BrazillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint George Braziller IncPublisher George Braziller IncWeight(grams) 411g -
You're Not Edith: Autobiographical Essays by Allison Gruber 9780807600054
RRP: $20.58$14.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807600054Author Allison GruberFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint George BrazillerPublisher George BrazillerWeight(grams) 136g -
Lincoln Steffens: Portrait of a Great American Journalist by Justin Kaplan 9781476766386
RRP: $21.93$15.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476766386Author Justin KaplanFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 422gDimensions(mm) 230mm *... -
That's Not Funny, That's Sick: The National Lampoon and the Comedy Insurgents Who Captured the Mainstream by Ellin Stein 9780393074093
$27.15Labor Day, 1969. Two recent college graduates move to New York to edit a new magazine called The National Lampoon. Over the next decade, Henry Beard and Doug Kenney, along with a loose amalgamation of fellow satirists including Michael O'Donoghue and P... -
66 Frames by Gordon Ball 9781566890823
$15.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566890823Author Gordon BallFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Coffee House PressPublisher Coffee House PressWeight(grams) 368gDimensions(mm) 213mm *... -
Scandal: A Manual by George Rush 9781632206770
$14.49When the world first learned of Pam Anderson and Tommy Lee's impromptu wedding, when Sarah Jessica Parker had an explosive falling-out with her Sex and the City castmates, or when Ruth Madoff discovered the truth of Bernie's marital infidelity, it was... -
News Junkie by Jason Leopold 9781940207230
RRP: $14.18$13.38In News Junkie, the cutthroat worlds of journalism, politics, and high finance are laid bare by Jason Leopold, whose addictive tendencies led him from a life of drug abuse and petty crime to become an award-winning investigative journalist who exposed... -
The Rebel Scribe: Carleton Beals and the Progressive Challenge to U.S. Policy in Latin America by Christopher Neal 9780761873105
$34.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780761873105Author Christopher NealFormat PaperbackPage Count 426Imprint University Press of AmericaPublisher University Press of America -
Politics, Journalism, and The Way Things Were: My Life at The Times, The Hill, and Politico by Martin Tolchin 9780367423520
RRP: $174.15$151.29In 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... -
Reluctant Editor: The Singapore Media as Seen Through the Eyes of a Veteran Newspaper Journalist by Balji P N 9789814828208
RRP: $16.76$11.73These are the unpublished stories about the stories that you may have read in Singapore newspapers over the years. Above all, they are Singapore media stories as experienced first-hand by a veteran journalist who had to be persuaded to become Editor of a... -
Good Trouble: Building a Successful Life and Business with Asperger's by Joe Biel 9781621060093
RRP: $19.34$12.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621060093Author Joe BielFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Microcosm PublishingPublisher Microcosm PublishingWeight(grams) 335g -
My Times: A Memoir of Dissent by John Hess 9781583226223
RRP: $16.76$11.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583226223Author John HessFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 327g -
Moral Courage: 19 Profiles of Investigative Journalists by Anthony Feinstein 9781943876419
RRP: $53.88$36.21Moral courage is much in the spotlight today given an upsurge in authoritarian regimes world-wide. Award-winning psychiatrist Anthony Feinstein offers his expert perspective on why investigative journalists stand up to intolerant regimes, often... -
The Year Of Loving Dangerously by Ted Rall 9781681122151
RRP: $20.63$12.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681122151Author Ted RallFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint NBM Publishing CompanyPublisher NBM Publishing Company -
News Junkie by Jason Leopold 9780976082248
RRP: $20.63$14.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780976082248Author Jason LeopoldFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint ProcessPublisher ProcessWeight(grams) 292g