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In 2007, journalist Nick Allen quit a secure job in Pakistan as a news agency writer to experience the life of foreign troops fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan. Over several years he journeyed as an embedded reporter with a dozen armies, working his...

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

David R. Godine, founder of the press, conducts a personal tour of the most memorable books he published during his 50-year career. From his earliest days as a letterpress printer to the present digital era, Godine managed to survive, and sporadically...

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 Koehler BooksPublisher Koehler BooksWeight(grams) 386g

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,...

Zero Dark Thirty meets 127 Hours - a riveting war journal from photographer Paul Conroy, who accompanied Marie Colvin (called by her peers &ldquothe greatest war correspondent of her generation") during her ill-fated final assignment in...

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.AwardsWinner of New Mexico Book Awards (Biography) 2010 and New Mexico Book Awards (Best of) 2010.Book InformationISBN 9780060798703Author James McGrath MorrisFormat...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062796646Author Stephanie GortonFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 544gDimensions(mm) 236mm...

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 9781906229603Author Emily WollastonFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Green Umbrella PublishingPublisher G2 Entertainment Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062896407Author Benjamin MoserFormat PaperbackPage Count 832Imprint Ecco PressPublisher Ecco PressWeight(grams) 930g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439141144Author Edna BuchananFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Pocket BooksPublisher Pocket BooksWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 132mm * 28mm

Bernard Fall wrote the classics Street Without Joy and Hell in a Very Small Place, which detailed the French experience in Vietnam. One of the first (and the best-informed) Western observers to say that the United States could not win there either, he...

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

Former New York Times correspondent John N. Herbers (1923-2017), who covered the civil rights movement for more than a decade, has produced Deep South Dispatch: Memoir of a Civil Rights Journalist, a compelling story of national and historical...

HONORED AS A NOTABLE 100 BOOK IN THE 2021 SHELF UNBOUND BEST INDIE BOOK COMPETITIONMort Crim has reported on major conflicts around the world for more than four decades and was a major inspiration for Will Ferrell's performance in the movie Anchorman...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781628726503Author Michael RosenthalFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint Arcade PublishingPublisher Arcade PublishingWeight(grams) 376g

Through a combination of amiable anecdotes, sharp-eyed historical reporting, and intense tangled memories of family life, this autobiography captures the legendary personality of television host Larry Zolf. Zolf could not be cajoled or cozened, and as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982128661Author Maria HinojosaFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Atria BooksPublisher Atria BooksWeight(grams) 140g

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. Cobb Born 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451232847Author Rose Marie ArceFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint CelebraPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

As seen on Fox and Friends From the front lines in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, and other conflict zones to the base of the burning Twin Towers on 9/11 to the eye of countless hurricanes, Rick Leventhal chronicles some of the most amazing stories he's...

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

In 1966, a year after the Voting Rights Act began liberating millions of southern blacks, New Yorkers challenged a political system that weakened their voting power. Andrew W. Cooper (1927-2002), a beer company employee, sued state officials in a case...

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781933372976Author Daniele MastrogiacomoFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Europa EditionsPublisher Europa Editions

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 Sanaa in 2009, she was...

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 on...

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...