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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

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

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

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.AwardsWinner of Alex Award - YALSA 1998.Book InformationISBN 9780679774020Author Rick BraggFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA...

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...

"She fought a lonely and almost single-handed fight, with the single-mindedness of a crusader, long before men or women of any race entered the arena; and the measure of success she achieved goes far beyond the credit she has been given in the history of...

Hunter S. Thompson is best remembered today as a caricature: drug-addled, sharp-witted, and passionate; played with bowlegged aplomb by Johnny Depp; memorialized as a Doonesbury character. In all this entertainment, the true figure of Thompson has...

A vivid and personal documentation of T. S. Eliot's most crucial years, both in his private and public life.Despairing of his volatile, unstable marriage, T. S. Eliot, at 44, resolves to put an end to his eighteen-year union with Vivien Haigh-Wood Eliot...

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)...

'The book amounts to a comprehensive literary history of the time.' David Sexton, Evening StandardVolume 5 of The Letters of T. S. Eliot finds the poet, between the ages of forty-two and forty-four, reckoning with the strict implications of his Christian...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062000682Author Laura LingFormat PaperbackPage Count 322Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 263g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805083224Author Caroline MooreheadFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint St. Martins Press-3PLPublisher St. Martins Press-3PLWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956368676Author Harry ProcterFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Revel BarkerPublisher Revel BarkerWeight(grams) 307g

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...

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...

_______________ 'Few writers can match her evocations of individual suffering in wartime.' - Newsweek 'A gifted and humane reporter with a novelist's eye for detail.' - Literary Review 'One of our generation's finest foreign correspondents.' -...

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,...

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...

"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 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.Book InformationISBN 9781844017133Author Reg ShayFormat PaperbackPage Count 436Imprint New Generation PublishingPublisher New Generation PublishingWeight(grams) 637g

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...

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...

Whatever Happened to the Washington Reporters, 1978-2012, is the first book to comprehensively examine career patterns in American journalism. In 1978 Brookings Senior Fellow Stephen Hess surveyed 450 journalists who were covering national government for...

During the 1800s, the United States progressed at a remarkable rate. Commerce gave rise to regional specialization and contributed to the growth of cities. By 1860 the nation had prospered to the extent that it no longer depended on Europe to purchase...

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...

A two-volume book in which Maurice Rajsfus, a French activist and former investigative journalist for Le Monde, shares his research and personal recollections in order to shed new light on France's role in the Holocaust. In the first volume,...

The National Book Award winner from Pulitzer Prize-winning author A. Scott Berg is now celebrating its 40th anniversary.The talents he nurtured were known worldwide: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Wolfe, and numerous others. But Maxwell...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541736399Author Tricia RomanoFormat HardbackPage Count 608Imprint PublicAffairs,U.S.Publisher PublicAffairs,U.S.

George Bronson Rea, Propagandist brings to life the extraordinary story of a journalist, publisher, engineer, spy, lobbyist, blackmailer and fortune hunter, who represents twentieth century journalism gone awry. Rea's career as a foreign correspondent...

In this memoir, replete with Jewish humor and sardonic Russian irony, exiled Russian journalist and human rights advocate Arkady Polishchuk (b. 1930) colorfully narrates his evolution as a dissenter and his work on behalf of persecuted Christians in...

What do Dr. Seuss, William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, Andrei Sakharov, and James Michener have in common? They were all published by Bob Bernstein during his twenty-five-year run as president of Random House, before he brought the dissidents Liu Binyan,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566890823Author Gordon BallFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Coffee House PressPublisher Coffee House PressWeight(grams) 368gDimensions(mm) 213mm *...

When the world first learned of Pam Anderson and Tommy Lee's impromptu wedding, when Sarah Jessica Parker had an explosive falling-out with her Sex and the City castmates, or when Ruth Madoff discovered the truth of Bernie's marital infidelity, it was...

In News Junkie, the cutthroat worlds of journalism, politics, and high finance are laid bare by Jason Leopold, whose addictive tendencies led him from a life of drug abuse and petty crime to become an award-winning investigative journalist who exposed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780761873105Author Christopher NealFormat PaperbackPage Count 426Imprint University Press of AmericaPublisher University Press of America

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...