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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

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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)...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780873515337Author Eric SevareidFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint Minnesota Historical Society Press,U.S.Publisher Minnesota Historical Society Press,U...

"All that kid wants to do is stick his nose in a book," Michael Dirda's steelworker father used to complain, worried about his son's passion for reading. In An Open Book, one of the most delightful memoirs to emerge in years, the acclaimed literary...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062021007Author Detmar BlowFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 386g

Betsy Prioleau's biography of Gilded Age female tycoon Miriam Leslie is "an appropriately twisty tale of someone trying to outrun her origins. . . . Her story sparkles, as intoxicating as a champagne fountain that somebody else is paying for" (New York...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999439507Author Bernard CrickFormat HardbackPage Count 500Imprint 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 9781400083039Author Rob SheffieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 170gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

On October 28, 1959, John Howard Griffin underwent a transformation that changed many lives beyond his own-he made his skin black and traveled through the segregated Deep South. His odyssey of discovery was captured in journal entries, arguably the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609806613Author Francesca BorriFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 274g

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...

Imagine a life of adventure, set in the world of second-hand books: finding a valuable first edition gathering dust on a Parisian pub shelf, opening bookshops in Montpellier, Paris, Bangor, trading books with a holidaying Ian McEwan or Alan Sillitoe, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781633913660Author Paul RichFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Westphalia PressPublisher Westphalia PressWeight(grams) 259gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400030590Author Katharine GrahamFormat PaperbackPage Count 832Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 686gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439109113Author Basharat PeerFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm)...

From one of America's leading reporters comes a deeply personal, extraordinarily powerful look at the most volatile crises he has witnessed around the world, from New Orleans to Baghdad and beyond. "Dispatches from the Edge of the World" is a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063210196Author April RyanFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Amistad PressPublisher Amistad PressWeight(grams) 152g

His keen grasp of human nature and a unique style of verse made Ogden Nash, in the mid-twentieth century, the most widely read and frequently quoted poet of his time. For years, readers have longed for a biography to match Nash's charm, wit, and good...

William Randolph Hearst was a figure of Shakespearean proportions, a man of huge ambition, inflexible will, and inexhaustible energy. He revolutionized the newspaper industry in America, becoming the most powerful media mogul the world had ever seen, and...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316018715Author Peter GodwinFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Little, Brown & CompanyPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781089368755Author Solomon ElusojiFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams)...

From its birth in 1925 to the early days of the Cold War, The New Yorker slowly but surely took hold as America's most prestigious, entertaining and informative general-interest periodical. In Cast of Characters, Thomas Vinciguerra paints a portrait of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781550179712Author Grant LawrenceFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Harbour PublishingPublisher Harbour PublishingDimensions(mm) 228mm * 152mm * 16mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385318211Author Noah AdamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Delta (imprint of Dell Publishing)Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060959715Author James ThurberFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 258gDimensions(mm)...

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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,...

When black journalist Vincent "Roi" Ottley was assigned to cover the European theatre in World War II, he provided a perspective shared by few other war correspondents. But what he really saw has taken more than sixty years to come to light. Already...

Intimate. Revealing. Candid. Published by the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, Conversations with Cronkite gives readers a rare glimpse into the life and times of Walter Cronkite in his own words. The book contains selections from interviews...