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Now a major motion picture starring Jeremy Renner! Kill the Messenger tells the story of the tragic death of Gary Webb, the controversial newspaper reporter who committed suicide in December 2004. Webb is the former San Jose Mercury News reporter whose...

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...

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...

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

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...

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 9781988824840Author James H MarshFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Durvile PublicationsPublisher Durvile PublicationsWeight(grams) 4849g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789815044010Author Woon Tai HoFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Marshall Cavendish EditionsPublisher Marshall Cavendish EditionsWeight(grams) 133g

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781598511185Author Michael RobertsFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Gray & Company PublishersPublisher Gray & Company PublishersWeight(grams)...

Barry Bingham, Sr., was one of this country's most influential journalists. Under his half-century of leadership, the Louisville Courier-Journal became one of America's leading newspapers, as attested by six Pulitzer Prizes. In this illuminating oral...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771620833Author Mark BulgutchFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Douglas & McIntyrePublisher Douglas & McIntyreWeight(grams) 652g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788498017229Author Gary RaymondFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint BlumePublisher BlumeWeight(grams) 635g

When U.S.-led forces invaded Iraq in March 2003, our soldiers weren't the only ones who put their lives on the line: so did 600 "embedded" journalists, including Katherine M. Skiba. Her riveting memoir provides a vivid you-are-there account of...

Towering above printers of his time and their successors for many years afterward was the figure of Robert Estienne, the great French lexicographer of the sixteenth century, whose contribution to knowledge and its dissemination is the subject of this...

Roosevelt bit me and I went mad,"" William Allen White said of his first encounter with Teddy in 1897. He grudgingly praised Franklin D. Roosevelt's performance at the 1943 Casablanca Conference with, "We who hate your gaudy guts salute...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781921497360Author David St John ThomasFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Exisle PublishingPublisher Exisle Publishing

In the days before mobile phones, the internet and 24-hour news channels, the easiest way for a British foreign correspondent to find out what was going on in the world was to phone the local office of Reuters news agency and ask: 'Is anything...

The story of Kurt Vonnegut and his beloved masterpiece, Slaughterhouse-Five, a novel born in the destruction of Dresden in World War II and written during the tumultuous days of Vietnam During the Vietnam War, Kurt Vonnegut, after surviving the horrors...

At the end of the 1960s, the mysterious Tom Forcade suddenly appeared, insinuating himself into the top echelons of countercultural politics and assuming control of the Underground Press Syndicate, a coalition of newspapers across the country. Weathering...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781598533088Author H. L. MenckenFormat HardbackPage Count 750Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of AmericaWeight(grams) 735gDimensions(mm)...