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Yours In Truth: A Personal Portrait of Ben Bradlee, Legendary Editor of The Washington Post by Jeff Himmelman
RRP: $35.68$25.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812980561Author Jeff HimmelmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)... -
Canoeing with the Cree: A 2250-Mile Voyage from Minneapolis to Hudson Bay by Eric Sevareid
RRP: $29.38$24.02Apologies 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... -
An Open Book: Chapters fom a Reader's Life by Michael Dirda 9780393326147
RRP: $42.00$36.37"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... -
Blow by Blow: The Story of Isabella Blow by Detmar Blow 9780062021007
RRP: $44.08$32.82Apologies 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 -
Diamonds and Deadlines: A Tale of Greed, Deceit, and a Female Tycoon in New York City’s Gilded Age by Betsy Prioleau 9781419770890
RRP: $29.38$19.51Betsy 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... -
Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time by Rob Sheffield
RRP: $33.60$19.97Apologies 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 *... -
Black Like Me: 50th Anniversary Edition by John Howard Griffin
RRP: $52.40$33.03On 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... -
Syrian Dust: Reporting from the Heart of the War by Francesca Borri
RRP: $27.28$18.23Apologies 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 -
Trailblazer: A Pioneering Journalist's Fight to Make the Media Look More Like America by Dorothy Butler Gilliam 9781546083450
RRP: $31.48$20.58Most 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... -
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Book Runner by Bill Rees 9781906998929
RRP: $16.78$13.63Imagine 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... -
The Arab of Mesopotamia by Paul Rich 9781633913660
RRP: $30.45$25.24Apologies 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 *... -
Katharine Graham's Washington: A Huge, Rich Gathering of Articles, Memoirs, Humor, and History, Chosen by Mrs.Graham, That Brings to Life Her Beloved City by Katharine Graham
RRP: $35.68$30.83Apologies 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)... -
Curfewed Night by Basharat Peer 9781439109113
RRP: $33.58$25.39Apologies 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)... -
Dispatches from the Edge: A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival by Anderson Cooper 9780061136689
$21.19From 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... -
Black Women Will Save the World: An Anthem by April Ryan 9780063210196
RRP: $58.78$37.76Apologies 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 -
Ogden Nash: The Life and Work of America's Laureate of Light Verse by Douglas M. Parker 9781566636377
RRP: $41.98$31.69His 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: The Later Years 1911-1951 by Ben Procter 9780195325348
RRP: $49.33$36.62William 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... -
Lake of the Ozarks: My Surreal Summers in a Vanishing America by Bill Geist
RRP: $46.20$30.58Before 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... -
When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa by Peter Godwin 9780316018715
RRP: $31.48$27.66Apologies 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)... -
Travelling with Big Brother: A Reporter's Junket in China by Solomon Elusoji 9781089368755
RRP: $25.20$20.56Apologies 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)... -
Cast of Characters: Wolcott Gibbs, E. B. White, James Thurber, and the Golden Age of The New Yorker by Thomas Vinciguerra 9780393240030
RRP: $46.18$39.80From 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... -
Return to Solitude: More Desolation Sound Adventures with the Cougar Lady, Russell the Hermit, the Spaghetti Bandit and Others by Grant Lawrence
RRP: $31.48$26.36Apologies 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 -
Piano Lessons: Music, Love, and True Adventures by Noah Adams 9780385318211
RRP: $35.70$26.38Apologies 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)... -
The Years With Ross by James Thurber 9780060959715
$23.98Apologies 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)... -
Lucking Out: My Life Getting Down and Semi-Dirty in Seventies New York by James Wolcott 9780767930628
RRP: $37.80$28.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767930628Author James WolcottFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 283gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Fierce Ambition: The Life and Legend of War Correspondent Maggie Higgins by Jennet Conant 9780393882124
RRP: $56.68$45.42Marguerite 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,... -
Roi Ottley's World War II: The Lost Diary of an African American Journalist by Mark A. Huddle
RRP: $56.60$45.80When 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... -
Conversations with Cronkite by Walter Cronkite
RRP: $54.58$47.12Intimate. 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... -
Somewhere Inside: One Sister's Captivity in North Korea and the Other's Fight to Bring Her Home by Laura Ling 9780062000682
RRP: $35.68$24.30Apologies 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 -
Selected Letters of Martha Gellhorn by Caroline Moorehead 9780805083224
RRP: $65.08$44.58Apologies 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)... -
Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer by Sally Mitchell 9780813922713
RRP: $98.60$81.27Frances Power Cobbe (1822-1904) is the most important nineteenth-century British writer and activist not heretofore treated in a full-length biography. An independent professional woman, she worked to improve conditions for delinquent girls and for the... -
In the Hamptons: My Fifty Years with Farmers, Fishermen, Artists, Billionaires, and Celebrities by Dan Rattiner 9780307382962
RRP: $46.20$32.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307382962Author Dan RattinerFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Crown PublicationsPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 200mm... -
To Tell the Truth: A Foreign Correspondent's Fifty-Year Pursuit by Lewis M. Simons
RRP: $63.00$57.73Pulitzer Prize winning reporter Lewis M. Simons's recollects his 50 years as a foreign correspondent, one whose powerful stories contributed to transforming Asia from Vietnam War-era basket case to a global boomtown that today rivals the United States. ... -
The Imperial Messenger: Thomas Friedman at Work by Belen Fernandez
RRP: $20.98$13.94The Imperial Messenger reveals the true value of this media darling, a risible writer whose success tells us much about the failures of contemporary journalism. Belen Fernandez dissects the Friedman corpus with wit and journalistic savvy to expose... -
River of Time: A Memoir of Vietnam and Cambodia by Professor John Swain 9780425168059
RRP: $42.00$35.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780425168059Author John SwainFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams)... -
Yours in Truth: A Personal Portrait of Ben Bradlee, Legendary Editor of The Washington Post by Jeff Himmelman 9781400068470
RRP: $48.30$39.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400068470Author Jeff HimmelmanFormat HardbackPage Count 512Imprint Fodor's Travel Publications Inc.,U.S.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)... -
Teachers: The Ones I Can’t Forget by Martin Fletcher
RRP: $31.48$20.75Teachers are the people Martin Fletcher met throughout his work as a news correspondent, often on the worst day of their lives. He watched as they picked up the pieces following personal tragedy and discovered the invaluable lesson of carrying on, no... -
Funny Business: The Legendary Life and Political Satire of Art Buchwald by Michael Hill
RRP: $48.30$35.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593229514Author Michael HillFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc -
You Were Never in Chicago by Neil Steinberg
$27.41In 1952 the New Yorker published a three-part essay by A. J. Liebling in which he dubbed Chicago the "Second City." From garbage collection to the skyline, nothing escaped Liebling's withering gaze. Among the outraged responses from Chicago residents was... -
A Rope and a Prayer: The Story of a Kidnapping by David Rohde 9780143120056
RRP: $50.40$37.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143120056Author David RohdeFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Penguin Books IndiaPublisher Penguin Books India Pvt LtdWeight(grams) 363g