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Conversations with Cronkite by Walter Cronkite
RRP: $46.78Booksplease Price: $41.81Intimate. 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... -
A Reporter's Life by Walter Cronkite 9780345411037
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $25.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345411037Author Walter CronkiteFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Ballantine Books Inc... -
Around America: A Tour of Our Magnificent Coast by Walter Cronkite 9780393323351
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $29.58America has nearly 5000 miles of coastline, and in this text Walter Cronkite, former CBS news anchor, provides a guide to it. At Maine's eastern tip, discover the British warship captured during the... -
The War Correspondents Keith Warren Lloyd 9781493088133
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $50.70The list of American war correspondents who covered the European Theater of Operations during the Second World War is a veritable Who's Who of American literary and journalistic greats of the... -
Spanish-Language Television: Cultural and Industrial Transformations Manuel G Avilés-Santiago 9781477331156
RRP: $171.60Booksplease Price: $138.72How Spanish-language television networks continue to thrive in a rapidly changing media landscape.Book InformationISBN 9781477331156Author Manuel G. Aviles-SantiagoFormat HardbackPage Count... -
Millicent Fenwick: Her Way by Amy Schapiro 9780813532318
RRP: $76.05Booksplease Price: $61.11Amy Schapiro has written the first biography of Millicent Fenwick, the popular and colorful New Jersey congresswoman. Affectionately remembered as the pipe-smoking grandmother who served as the... -
Inventorship: The Art of Innovation by Leonard M. Greene 9780471414070
RRP: $46.78Booksplease Price: $34.98"From this lively and personal account, we learn that we can all practice inventorship to great advantage-measured either in gold or pleasure, or perhaps both!"-From the Foreword by Walter Cronkite ... -
Baby Boomers and Popular Culture: An Inquiry into America's Most Powerful Generation by Thom Gencarelli 9780313398865
Booksplease Price: $120.76The Boomers are the generation that changed everything, from economics to politics to popular culture. This book examines the myriad ways and long-reaching consequences of the now fully "grown up"... -
Spanish-Language Television: Cultural and Industrial Transformations Manuel G Avilés-Santiago 9781477331163
RRP: $52.63Booksplease Price: $45.79How Spanish-language television networks continue to thrive in a rapidly changing media landscape.Book InformationISBN 9781477331163Author Manuel G. Aviles-SantiagoFormat PaperbackPage Count... -
The Battle of Hue 1968: Fight for the Imperial City by James H Willbanks
RRP: $31.18Booksplease Price: $24.32In late January 1968, some 84,000 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops launched a country-wide general offensive in South Vietnam, mounting simultaneous assaults on 36 of 44 provincial capitals, and... -
Shut Up and Keep Talking: Lessons on Life and Investing from the Floor of the New York Stock Exchange by Bob Pisani
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $34.48Bob Pisani is Senior Markets Correspondent for CNBC and has spent the past 25 years on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. He has been on the front line of finance for all the major events... -
Jimmy Stewart: Bomber Pilot Starr Smith 9780760328248
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $26.58Of all the celebrities who served their country during World War II -and they were legion -Jimmy Stewart was unique. On December 7th, when the attack on Pearl Harbor woke so many others to the... -
Anchored: A Journalist's Search for Truth by Mort Crim
RRP: $50.68Booksplease Price: $34.83HONORED AS A NOTABLE 100 BOOK IN THE 2021 SHELF UNBOUND BEST INDIE BOOK COMPETITIONMort Crim has reported on major conflicts around the world for more than four decades and was a major inspiration... -
Speak Up: Breaking the Glass Ceiling at CBS News by Linda S. Mason 9781538176405
Booksplease Price: $44.23Follow one of the first women network news producers as she climbs the career ladder right through the headlines of American history and inspires us all to speak up for our ourselves and fight for... -
The High Heaven Joshua Wheeler 9781644453575
RRP: $48.73Booksplease Price: $33.83In 1967, on the night of the first Apollo mission, a child named Izzy is orphaned when the doomsday cult she was born into clashes with the sheriff in the high desert of New Mexico. She's taken in by... -
Getting It Wrong: Debunking the Greatest Myths in American Journalism by W. Joseph Campbell 9780520291270
RRP: $156.00Booksplease Price: $124.08Many of American journalism's best-known and most cherished stories are exaggerated, dubious, or apocryphal. They are media-driven myths, and they attribute to the news media and their practitioners... -
Hue 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam by Mark Bowden 9780802127907
Booksplease Price: $31.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802127907Author Mark BowdenFormat PaperbackPage Count 624Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly... -
Getting It Wrong: Debunking the Greatest Myths in American Journalism by W. Joseph Campbell 9780520291294
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $41.44Many of American journalism's best-known and most cherished stories are exaggerated, dubious, or apocryphal. They are media-driven myths, and they attribute to the news media and their practitioners... -
Off the Record by Peter Mansbridge
RRP: $35.08Booksplease Price: $26.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982169640Author Peter MansbridgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher... -
Morning in America: How Ronald Reagan Invented the 1980's by Gil Troy 9780691130606
RRP: $87.75Booksplease Price: $71.86Did America's fortieth president lead a conservative counterrevolution that left liberalism gasping for air? The answer, for both his admirers and his detractors, is often "yes." In Morning in... -
The Odyssey of Echo Company: The 1968 Tet Offensive and the Epic Battle to Survive the Vietnam War by Doug Stanton
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $25.02SELECTED BY MILITARY TIMES AS A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR * SELECTED BY THE SOCIETY OF MIDLAND AUTHORS' AS THE BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR The New York Times bestselling author of In Harm's Way and... -
The Complete Peanuts 1953-1954: Volume 2 by Charles M. Schulz
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $29.25In addition to introducing the beloved character Pig-Pen, The Complete Peanuts: 1953-1954 shows many of the cast of characters beginning to take on their best-known personality traits - from... -
The Audience And Its Landscape John Hay 9780813322858
RRP: $116.98Booksplease Price: $105.50This book offers a major reconceptualization of the term ?audience,? including the landscape of a given audience?the situated and territorializing features of any way of seeing and defining the world... -
War Stories: The Causes and Consequences of Public Views of War by Matthew A. Baum 9780691138596
RRP: $74.10Booksplease Price: $60.82How does the American public formulate its opinions about U.S. foreign policy and military engagement abroad? War Stories argues that the media systematically distort the information the public... -
Harry Reasoner: A Life in the News by Douglass K. Daniel 9780292722170
RRP: $44.83Booksplease Price: $43.35Harry Reasoner was one of the most trusted and well-liked journalists of the golden age of network television news. Whether anchoring the evening newscast on CBS in the 1960s or on ABC in the 1970s,... -
Stanley Marcus: The Relentless Reign of a Merchant Prince by Thomas E. Alexander 9781933337746
RRP: $46.78Booksplease Price: $44.03Stanley Marcus was undeniably America's Merchant Prince. He created his own legend by becoming a fashion authority without parallel, an unerring arbiter of taste, a marketing genius, and a ham-like... -
Historical Dictionary of American Radio by Frederic S. Leigh 9780313296369
Booksplease Price: $131.41A comprehensive resource of American radio history including over 100 authors and covering over 600 different topics, fully cross-referenced and indexed. Entries are arranged alphabetically and... -
American Journalists by Donald A. Ritchie 9780195328370
RRP: $49.71Booksplease Price: $40.95In 60 essays, this volume profiles American journalists from colonial times to the present-reporters, editors, publishers, photographers, and broadcasters-whose careers reflected major developments... -
Immortality by Alan Feldman 9780299303341
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $25.70"Drop the personal," Alan Feldman's best friend advises. But what else does he have? Feldman takes his title from Zhivago's interpretations of the afterlife: "Your soul, your... -
Unbelievable: My Front-Row Seat to the Craziest Campaign in American History by Katy Tur
Booksplease Price: $23.97A New York Times Bestseller"Compelling... this book couldn't be more timely." - Jill Abramson, New York Times Book ReviewCalled "disgraceful," "third-rate," and "not nice" by Donald Trump, NBC News... -
Judgment at Nuremberg by Abby Mann
Booksplease Price: $24.47Drama Characters; 15 male, 4 female 1 set (other locations simply suggested); optional projections and slides. Maximilian Schell and George Gizzard starred on Broadway in the powerful stage version... -
From Whistle Stop to Sound Bite: Four Decades of Politics and Television by Sig Mickelson 9780275926328
Booksplease Price: $56.32Sig Mickelson, former president of CBS News and pioneer in television coverage of political events, gives an eyewitness account of Television's complicated interaction with the U.S. political system... -
Harold Pinter, Fascism, and Outrage: Aesthetic and Moral Implications Dennis Eugene Russell 9781666943948
Booksplease Price: $158.01This book locates Harold Pinter's controversial anti-fascism, overtly political plays not as revolutionary works designed to mobilize the masses, but as cries of moral outrage against the... -
Intimate Strangers: The Culture of Celebrity by Richard Schickel 9781566633178
Booksplease Price: $27.77In trying to understand the power of celebrity in modern life, Richard Schickel ranges through every realm of our culture - film, theatre, television, literature, art, the media, pop music, politics... -
Art, Activism, and Sexual Violence by Sally L. Kitch 9780295752105
RRP: $68.15Booksplease Price: $63.12Highlights the role of creative expression in exposing, preventing, and combatting sexual violenceSince 2017 the #MeToo movement has expanded cultural awareness of the pervasiveness of sexual assault... -
Cronkite by Douglas Brinkley 9780061374272
Booksplease Price: $27.89For decades, Walter Cronkite was known as the most trusted man in America. Millions across the nation welcomed him into their homes, first as a print reporter for the United Press on the front lines... -
Tell Me A Story: 50 Years and 60 Minutes in Television by Don Hewitt 9781586481414
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $27.30In more than a half century with CBS News, Don Hewitt has been responsible for many of the greatest moments in television history, including the first broadcasts of political conventions in 1948 the... -
Living with Television by Ira D. Glick
RRP: $46.78Booksplease Price: $44.75This book is based on extensive field research conducted by the investigators of Social Research Inc., interpreting the result of over 13,000 individuals. Members of TV audiences were studied to... -
Gone Writing: The Poems of Moore on Sunday by Peter Moore 9780816634323
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $26.07Humorous poetry from the television program hosted by a beloved Minnesota news anchor.Humorous poetry from the television program hosted by a beloved Minnesota news anchor.In the 1950s, Dave Moore, a... -
Citizen Journalism: Global Perspectives- Volume 2 by Einar Thorsen 9781433122835
RRP: $240.73Booksplease Price: $215.42The second volume of Citizen Journalism: Global Perspectives seeks to build upon the agenda set in motion by the first volume, namely by: Offering an overview of key developments in citizen...