Editors, Journalists, Publishers

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...

Apologies 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...

From 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...

Labor 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...

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...

From 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...

In 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...

Laura 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...

Emmy 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...

They'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...

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

John 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...

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

"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...

What 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,...

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 9780807600160Author George BrazillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint George Braziller IncPublisher George Braziller IncWeight(grams) 411g

Apologies 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

Apologies 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 *...

Labor 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...

Apologies 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 *...

When 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...

In 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...

Apologies 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

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...

These 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...

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