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Located in New York's theatre district, the Algonquin Hotel became an artistic hub for the city and a landmark in America's cultural life. It was a meeting place and home away from home for such luminaries as famed wits/authors Alexander Woollcott and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798987960509Author Ann Weimer MoxleyFormat HardbackPage Count 266Imprint University of Florida College of Journalism and CommunicationsPublisher University...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945624209Author Ernest DumasFormat HardbackPage Count 280Imprint Butler Center for Arkansas StudiesPublisher Butler Center for Arkansas...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922235350Author Elizabeth MorrisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Monash University PublishingPublisher Monash University PublishingWeight(grams)...

In 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'...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781455623914Author Sheba TurkFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Pelican Publishing CompanyPublisher Pelican Publishing CompanyWeight(grams) 227g

Apologies 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

A 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...

The 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...

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...

With ""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...

This 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...

Apologies 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

Apologies 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

Candy 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...

Apologies 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 *...

Apologies 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

Apologies 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

An enormously entertaining and witty memoir.Book InformationISBN 9781552783702Author Sondra GotliefFormat PaperbackPage Count 348Imprint McArthur & CompanyPublisher McArthur & CompanyWeight(grams) 263g

In 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789814828208Author Pn BaljiFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Marshall Cavendish International (Asia) Pte LtdPublisher Marshall Cavendish International...

Apologies 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

Apologies 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 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...

Apologies 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

Apologies 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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780967967523Author Nat HentoffFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Paul Dry Books, IncPublisher Paul Dry Books, IncWeight(grams) 281g

"The story of a book-making life."-New York Times "The lovely colors, tasteful art and elegant typography are an abiding reminder to a hurried world that some gifts of grace endure. That promise is realized in Godine's books, the gold standard of...

The riveting biography of Burl Osborne, former chairman of The Associated Press and publisher of The Dallas Morning News, who waged and won one of the last great newspaper wars in the U.S. Burl is the story of one man's unlikely rise from the coal mines...

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 9781646630714Author Matthew SchwartzFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Matthew SchwartzPublisher Matthew SchwartzWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

This amazing collection of choice anecdotes takes us right back to the Golden Age of New York City nightlife, when top restaurants like Toots Shor's, "21," and Sardi's, as well as glittering nightclubs like the Stork Club, Latin Quarter, and El Morocco,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Independent Publisher Book Awards (Autobiography/Memoir) 2007.Book InformationISBN 9781932595130Author Allan MacDonellFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062896407Author Benjamin MoserFormat PaperbackPage Count 832Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 930gDimensions(mm) 226mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525511212Author Deborah CohenFormat PaperbackPage Count 608Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 132g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250872258Author Janet MalcolmFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982128661Author Maria HinojosaFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 313gDimensions(mm) 213mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953480064Author Neal SpelceFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Briscoe Ctr for Amer History Ut-AustinPublisher Briscoe Ctr for Amer History Ut-Austin

"Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn." -- Irvin S. CobbBorn and raised in Paducah, Kentucky, humorist Irvin S. Cobb (1876--1944) rose from humble beginnings to become one of the early twentieth century's most celebrated...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375727085Author Ted KoppelFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 240g