Editors, Journalists, Publishers

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612198286Author James H. BarronFormat HardbackPage Count 496Imprint Melville House PublishingPublisher Melville House Publishing

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 *...

A harrowing and unforgettable look at reporting in Mexico, one of the world's most dangerous countries to be a journalist In 2017, Mexico edged out Iraq and Syria as the deadliest country in the world in which to be a reporter, with at least...

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

Foreword by Rabbi Abraham Cooper, Associate Dean, Simon Wiesenthal Center A real-life adventure story told by a New York Times bestselling author and war correspondent who reveals how he became a hostage, an arms dealer, and an Israeli spy.And the Rest...

The legendary Boss Tweed effectively controlled New York City from after the Civil War until his downfall in November 1871. A huge man, he and his Ring of Thieves appeared to be invincible as they stole an estimated $2 billion in today's dollars. In...

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 200Imprint 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...

Jeanine McMullen was a BBC producer in London when, some ten years ago, she went to Wales on assignment. There she fell in love--with Wales, its people, and most of all with the farm that, on an impulse, she decided to buy. In this delightful volume she...

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...

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.Book InformationISBN 9780618439201Author Adam HochschildFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 209mm * 139mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781610160353Author Albert Jay NockFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Ludwig Von Mises InstitutePublisher Ludwig Von Mises InstituteWeight(grams)...

In this crackling memoir, the journalist and novelist Michael Idov recounts the tempestuous years he spent living alongside - and closely observing - the media and cultural elite of Putin's Russia. After accepting a surprise offer to become the editor in...

'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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063420052Author Anon9780063420052Format HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Broadside BooksPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 646g

'Much excellent gossip, some of it wildly indiscreet . . . Hastings is a brilliant reporter' – Sunday Telegraph'The acuity of his insights make this book a wholly compelling read' – ObserverIn February 2002 Max Hastings retired from his position as a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780914090304Author Michael G. LeeFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Chicago Review PressPublisher Chicago Review Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781613165775Author Richard EspositoFormat HardbackPage Count 360Imprint Penzler PublishersPublisher Penzler Publishers

'An extraordinary story of grace, forgiveness and moral courage' Patrick Radden Keefe A 2024 HIGHLIGHT IN THE OBSERVER, GUARDIAN AND IRISH TIMES AN IMMEDIATE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER The English language has no specific word for the parent that has lost...

An exhilarating journey through the world of books, featuring personal reflections on Susan Sontag, Huey Newton, Barbra Streisand, W. G. Sebald, and Christopher Hitchens."A troublemaker of the good kind since his youth, Wasserman continues to inspire...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781962654654Author Uwe Siemon-NettoFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint 1517 PublishingPublisher 1517 Publishing

'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...

While sportswriters rushed into Major League Baseball locker rooms to talk with players, MLB Commissioner Bowie Kuhn barred the lone woman from entering along with them. That reporter, 26-year-old Sports Illustrated reporter Melissa Ludtke, charged Kuhn...

“A vivid, moving and sometimes funny account of the reality of life during Russia's invasion,” Marc Bennetts, The Times “Uplifting and utterly defiant,” Matt Nixson, Daily Express “No-one with the slightest interest in this war, or the nation on which it...

'Remarkable: combines her exceptional experience as a war correspondent with selected poetry in an act of witness' ANDREW MOTIONI 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781962654647Author Uwe Siemon-NettoFormat HardbackPage Count 194Imprint 1517 PublishingPublisher 1517 Publishing

An evocative, candid reveal of the media and design worlds by an award-winning journalist and activist urban planner in search of the soul of cities and himself.From the stoops of Brooklyn and the streets of East Harlem to the newsrooms of New York and...

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,...