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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781619021051Author William HjortsbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 880Imprint CounterpointPublisher Counterpoint

In this riveting and revealing autobiography, newspaper editor Abdel Bari Atwan recounts with humour and honesty his many extraordinary encounters, including tea with Margaret Thatcher, his weekend with Osama bin Laden, intimate meetings with Yasser...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781854114365Author Geraint Talfan DaviesFormat PaperbackPage Count 340Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales Press

Kate Webb, an Australian iconoclast, Catherine Leroy, a French dare devil photographer, and Frances FitzGerald, a blue-blood American intellectual, arrived in Vietnam with starkly different life experiences but one shared purpose: to report on the most...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143036616Author Ruth ReichlFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 312gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 137mm *...

WORDS AND MUSIC: THE ADVENTURES OF AN OPTIMISTBook InformationISBN 9781493065103Author Stephen RubinFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint ApplausePublisher Globe Pequot PressWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm) 232mm * 160mm * 19mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451234216Author John Howard GriffinFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint SignetPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 113gDimensions(mm) 191mm * 108mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812931297Author Antjie KrogFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 209mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Alex Award - YALSA 1998.Book InformationISBN 9780679774020Author Rick BraggFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA...

Irascible and forthright, Christopher Hitchens stood out as a man determined to do just that. In his younger years, a career-minded socialist, he emerged from the smoke of 9/11 a neoconservative "Marxist," an advocate of America's invasion of Iraq filled...

The first biography of the glamorous and scandalous Miriam Leslie-a titan of publishing and an unsung hero of women's suffrage-connecting Gilded Age opulence with present-day social justiceAmong the fabled tycoons of the Gilded Age-Carnegie, Rockefeller,...

A brilliantly evocative memoir from the golden age of newspaper publishing, from a man who helped define our modern media. Les Hinton worked with Rupert Murdoch for more than five decades, and in that time witnessed the transformation of our media...

"That's one small step for (a) man, one giant leap for mankind," were the words spoken by Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong as he stepped off the footpad of the Lunar Module Eagle. This was the first and most famous manned mission to land on the Moon...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781770411548Author Bill ApterFormat PaperbackPage Count 282Imprint ECW Press,CanadaPublisher ECW Press,CanadaWeight(grams) 493g

In 1964, at age 22, Len Downie joined the Washington Post as an intern. He became a pioneering investigative reporter, news editor, foreign correspondent, and managing editor, before succeeding the legendary Ben Bradlee as executive editor.As Downie...

W.H. Auden famously wrote: "Poetry makes nothing happen." Journalism is a different matter. In a brilliant study that is, in part, a memoir of his 40 years as an essayist and critic at TIME magazine, Lance Morrow returns to the Age of Typewriters and to...

Internationally bestselling novelist and American icon Tom Robbins delivers the long awaited tale of his wild life and times, both at home and around the globe. Tom Robbins' warm, wise, and wonderfully weird novels-including Still Life With Woodpecker,...

Before there was 'tourism' or 'leisure time;' before souvenir ashtrays became 'camp' and 'kitsch;' before Goofy Golf became an 'attraction' and today's colossal theme parks could even be imagined, there was 'Beautiful Lake of the Ozarks -- Family...

At thirty-five, Elsie Robinson feared she'd lost it all. Reeling from a scandalous divorce in 1917, she had no means to support herself and her chronically ill son. She dreamed of becoming a writer and was willing to sacrifice everything for this goal,...

Daisy Bacon, the opinionated, autocratic and complex editor of Love Story Magazine from 1928 to 1947, chose the stories that would be read by hundreds of thousands of readers each week. The first weekly periodical devoted to romance fiction and the...

'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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541736399Author Tricia RomanoFormat HardbackPage Count 608Imprint PublicAffairsPublisher PublicAffairsWeight(grams) 839g

From the beginning, L. Brent Bozell seemed destined for great things. An extraordinary orator, the young man with fiery red hair won a national debate competition in high school and later was elected president of Yale's storied Political Union, where his...

A. J. A. Symons was, as Simon C. W. Hewett puts it, “a bibliophile, bibliographer, bookdealer, calligrapher, serial club founder, gourmet, author, biographer, and expert on Baron Corvo, Oscar Wilde, and Victorian musical boxes.” He is perhaps best...

A classic memoir retold to reveal a long kept secret. When Ben Duncan chronicled his evolution from a Depression-era orphan in Alabama to an Oxford educated writer and commentator in England in 1962, he was unable to tell his whole story. He revealed...

William Shirer (1904-1993), a star foreign correspondent with the Chicago Tribune in the 1920s and '30s, was a prominent member of what one contemporary observer described as an extraordinary band of American journalists, "some with the Midwest...

Duncan Macpherson (1924-1993) was one of the greatest of Canadian cartoonists. He began his career as an illustrator for the Montreal Standard and Weekend Magazine, then joined the ranks of Maclean's and finally the Toronto Star. He won six National...

Street-smart, wickedly funny, piercingly perceptive, and eloquent enough to win a Pulitzer Prize, Mike Royko continues to have legions of devoted fans who still wonder 'what Royko would have said' about some outrageous piece of news. One thing he hardly...

Oregon entered a new era in 1964 with the election of Tom McCall as Secretary of State and Bob Straub as State Treasurer. Their political rivalry formed the backdrop for two of Oregon's most transformative decades, as they successively fought for, lost,...

The first full-length biography of the immensely productive and influential author, attorney, activist, and former editor of the Nation. A long-overdue book on the brilliant life and career of one of our greatest public intellectuals, American Prophet...

A biography of William Rusher, long-time publisher of the National Review. It paints a portrait of an erudite, witty, yet earnest leader who served as an indispensable link between the Right's theorists and its political practitioners throughout...

Long before Branch Rickey signed Jackie Robinson to a Brooklyn Dodger contract in 1945, Lester Rodney, the newly hired and first sports editor of the "Communist Daily Worker", launched the campaign that proved decisive in eventually breaking...

This is a delightful blend of memoir, opinion, and sports from an Alabama original. For 31 years, Clyde Bolton wrote four sports columns per week for the ""Birmingham News"". By his estimation, this makes him the most widely read Alabamian in history. He...

Although his typewriter has been silent for nearly fifty years, Gordon MacQuarrie's words continue to inspire generations of hunting and fishing enthusiasts. Through his "Stories of the Old Duck Hunters," MacQuarrie captured the intangible, emotional...

In this memoir, Robert J. Donovan shares many events that highlighted his stellar journalistic career. As an investigative reporter during five presidential elections, Donovan has had many insider experiences. This memoir humanizes each of the five...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816523573Author Betty E. Hammer JoyFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781978816251Author Robert C. CottrellFormat PaperbackPage Count 624Imprint Rutgers University PressPublisher Rutgers University PressWeight(grams) 140g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781988824840Author James H MarshFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Durvile PublicationsPublisher Durvile PublicationsWeight(grams) 4849g

Weary from the journalistic treadmill of 'going from one assignment to the next, like an itinerant fieldworker moving to his harvests' and healing from a divorce, Douglas Bauer decided it was time to return to his hometown. Back in Prairie City, he...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781572336001Author Sam VenableFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint University of Tennessee PressPublisher University of Tennessee Press