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The Bang-Bang Club: Snapshots from a Hidden War by Greg Marinovich Publisher Comments A gripping story of four remarkable young men—photographers, friends and rivals—who band together for protection in the final, violent days of white rule in South Africa.... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper 
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The Quotable Hitchens: From Alcohol to Zionism: The Very Best of Christopher Hitchens by Christopher Hitchens Publisher Comments Over the past few decades, the bestselling author of Hitch-22 has crisscrossed the globe debating religious scholars, Catholic clergy, rabbis, and devout Christians on the existence of God--appearances that have attracted thousands of people on both... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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I Watched a Wild Hog Eat My Baby by Bill Sloan Publisher Comments This entertaining history of America's supermarket tabloids offers a behind-the-scenes look at the intriguing world of tabloid journalism, and especially the unique personalities that made it a successful and influential force in today's media... (read more) List Price $28.98 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: The Writers and Artists Who Made the National Lampoon So Insanely Great by Rick Meyerowitz Publisher Comments From its first issue in April, 1970, the National Lampoon blazed like a comet, defining comedy as we know it today. To create Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead, former Lampoon illustrator Rick Meyerowitz selected the funniest material from the magazine and... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $14.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Hunter S. Thompson: An Insider's View of Deranged, Depraved, Drugged Out Brilliance by Jay Cowan Publisher Comments The true believer. The hopeful romantic. The King of Fun. The last honest man. The guy who always bets his heart and knows it’s wrong but can’t stop himself. Hunter S. Thompson * “Just like he loved Hunter, Warren Zevon... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Joke's Over: Bruised Memories: Gonzo, Hunter S. Thompson, and Me by Ralph Steadman Publisher Comments A New York Times Book Review Editors Choice New York Post Required Reading "Enormously entertaining."—The Boston Globe "A pleasant surprise."—The Tampa Tribune "Bizarre and compelling."— Miami New Times "A must read."&... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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What Remains: A Memoir of Fate, Friendship, and Love by Carole Radziwill Publisher Comments What Remains is a vivid and haunting memoir about a girl from a working-class town who becomes an award-winning television producer and marries a prince, Anthony Radziwill. Carole grew up in a small suburb with a large, eccentric cast of characters. At... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Taking on the Trust: The Epic Battle of Ida Tarbell and John D. Rockefeller by Steve Weinberg Publisher Comments Hailed by critics on its release, this fascinating dual biography looks at two extraordinary lives and the social history of the Progressive Era. Taking on the Trust is a grand achievement by a skilled scholar and proud defender of the ever-necessary act... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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You Are Still Being Lied to: The New Disinformation Guide to Media Distortion, Historical Whitewashes and Cultural Myths by Russ Kick Publisher Comments A must-have revised and expanded edition of The Disinformation Company’s classic anthology, You Are STILL Being Lied To contains more than a dozen all-new essays from contributors like Norman Solomon, Graham Hancock, Alex Jones, John Major Jenkins,... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price: $12.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Silk Parachute by John Mcphee Publisher Comments A WONDROUS NEW BOOK OF MCPHEES PROSE PIECES—IN MANY ASPECTS HIS MOST PERSONAL IN FOUR DECADES The brief, brilliant essay “Silk Parachute,” which first appeared in The New Yorker a decade ago, has become John McPhees most... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The John McPhee Reader by John Mcphee Publisher Comments The John McPhee Reader, first published in 1976, is comprised of selections from the authors first twelve books. In 1965, John McPhee published his first book, A Sense of Where You Are; a decade later, he had published eleven others. His fertility, his... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Off the Record: The Press, the Government, and the War Over Anonymous Sources by Norman Pearlstine Publisher Comments Confidentiality has become a weapon in the White Houses war on the press, a war fought with the unwitting complicity of the press itself. Norman Pearlstine takes us behind the scenes of one of the most controversial courtroom dramas of our time. When... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Hons and Rebels by Jessica Mitford Publisher Comments The NYRB Classics series is designedly and determinedly exploratory and eclectic, a mix of fiction and non-fiction from different eras and times and of various sorts. The series includes nineteenth century novels and experimental novels, reportage and... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Rum Diary by Hunter S Thompson Publisher Comments Begun in 1959 by a twenty-two-year-old Hunter S. Thompson, The Rum Diary is a brilliantly tangled love story of jealousy, treachery, and violent alcoholic lust in the Caribbean boomtown that was San Juan, Puerto Rico, in the late 1950s. The narrator... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Gonzo by Ben Corbett Synopsis Gonzo is a tour de force that will take you into the world of American writer and iconoclast Hunter S. Thompson. ... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Is Journalism Worth Dying For?: Final Dispatches by Anna Politkovskaya Publisher Comments A collection of final dispatches by the famed journalist, including the first translation of the work that may have led to her murder Anna Politkovskaya won international fame for her courageous reporting. Is Journalism Worth Dying For? is a long-awaited... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Dispatches from the Edge: A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival by Anderson Cooper Publisher Comments Few people have witnessed more scenes of chaos and conflict around the world than Anderson Cooper, whose groundbreaking coverage on CNN has changed the way we watch the news. In this gripping, candid, and remarkably powerful memoir, he offers an... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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H.L. Mencken: Prejudices: First, Second, and Third Series by H L Mencken Publisher Comments The Library of America: Now available in one complete collection. Thirty years ago, The Library of America was founded to undertake a historic endeavor: to help preserve the nation's cultural heritage by publishing America's best and most significant... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $19.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Outlaw Journalist the Life & Times of Hunter S Thompson by William Mckeen Publisher Comments Hunter S. Thompson detonated a two-ton bomb under the staid field of journalism with his magazine pieces and revelatory Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. In Outlaw Journalist, the famous inventor of Gonzo journalism is portrayed as never before. Through in-... (read more) Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness by Hunter S Thompson Publisher Comments SPORTS, POLITICS, AND SEX COLLIDE IN HUNTER S. THOMPSON'S WILDLY POPULAR ESPN.COM COLUMNS. Insightful, incendiary, outrageously brilliant, such was the man who galvanized American journalism with his radical ideas and gonzo tactics. For over half a... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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